"I love story songs because I've always..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“I have surrounded myself with very smart people.”

“The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.”

“Cheating love is just as real as un-cheating love.”

“Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.”

“Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business.”

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

“It was pretty good. Even the music was nice.”

“People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.”

“I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.”