The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.
I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.
I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.
People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.
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.
I don't kiss nobody's butt.
When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
There's nothing like white trash at the White House.
Energy begets energy.
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!
Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are. To me, that's what being a star means.
My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.
I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.
People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'
Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.
I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.
No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.
After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.
When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.
I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.
I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.
