I don't kiss nobody's butt.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by other women, period.

I will never retire unless I have to.

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.