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" I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite. "

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

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

" People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.' "

" You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished. "

" 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. "

" I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. "

" Sevier County is a great area. "

" 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. "

" Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters. "

" I always wanted to be loved. "

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

" I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today. "

" I try not to go around looking like a hag. "

" I was always a junk food person, still am. "

" You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try. "

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

" When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. "

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

" 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. "

" I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out. "

" My grandpa was a preacher. "

" 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.' "

" Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan. "

" Someone once asked me, 'How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, 'I don't know, I'm never there.' "