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.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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!

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

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.

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

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

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!

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

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 walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

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.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

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.

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

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

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 do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

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 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'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.

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

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.

I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

My fat never made me less money.

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.

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

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

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

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 often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

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

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

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

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

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

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.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.