"People don't realize that, you know, we..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.”

“In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.”

“I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.”

“We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.”

“I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.”

“There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.”

“What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.”

“When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.”

“When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.”