“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!”
Dolly Parton“A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?”
Dolly Parton“They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.”
Dolly Parton, Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business“I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.”
Dolly Parton“I love traveling all over the world but it's true: there's nothing like home. ”
Dolly Parton“God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.”
Dolly Parton“I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.”
Dolly Parton“Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.”
Dolly Parton“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.”
Dolly Parton“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.”
Dolly Parton“When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.”
Dolly Parton