Dolly parton

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

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.

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...

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

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

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....

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

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.