Quotes by Dolly Parton

"I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different."

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

"Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches."

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."

"It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen."

"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

"I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that."

"I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work."

"You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then."

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

"Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good."

"You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on."

"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."

"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."

"I was always a junk food person, still am."

"My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order."

"I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that."

"God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple."

"You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try."

"I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy."

"I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse."

"I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person."

"When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next."

"You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone."

"Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out."

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

"A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them."

"I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself."

"I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody."

"I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them."

"I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then."

"I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids."

"No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!"

"The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue."

"I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say."

"I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with."

"Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort."

"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."

"I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed."

"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."

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."