Quotes by Dolly Parton

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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!"

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."