Dolly Parton

If you like good ol’ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

Dolly Parton

It’s almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

Dolly Parton

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol’ U.S.A.

Dolly Parton

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

Dolly Parton

It’s when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.

Dolly Parton

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

Dolly Parton

Money ain’t everything.

Dolly Parton

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I’ve written, are stories driven by characters.

Dolly Parton

Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I’ve done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

Dolly Parton

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I’m always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

Dolly Parton