I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.

I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

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 you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

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.

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.

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

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.

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.

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

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.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

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.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

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

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.