Dolly Parton

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

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.

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 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.

If you don__ like the road you__e walking, start paving another one.

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.

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.

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!

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 walk tall I got a tall attitude.

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 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.

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.

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

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

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

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.