I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

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

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

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

Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary

A problem isn't a real problem till you decide to make it a problem... so what's the problem again?

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Your talent is in your choice.

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.