"I love thinking, I love coming up..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.”

“A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.”

“I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.”

“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”

“Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.”

“Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”

“Every idea must have a visible enfolding.”

“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”

“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.”