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" If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition. "

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" I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs. "

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

" There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too. "

" My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things. "

" A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs. "

" I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song. "

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

" 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. "

" I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way. "

" My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved. "

" I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back. "

" I've been very fortunate. "

" I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them. "

" I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets. "

" No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager. "

" I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it. "

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

" '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. "

" I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. "

" The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. "

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

" My life has been very full. "

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

" I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva. "

" God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people. "

" 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. "

" There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too. "

" I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was! "

" My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. "

" If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked. "