Dolly Parton

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

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.

'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

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 best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

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

A lot of people think I'm a comedian.

I love being active.

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'