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 didnt even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then. – Dolly Parton
If you talk bad about country music, its like saying bad things about my momma. Thems fightin words. – Dolly Parton
I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think its like a battery: youve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person. – Dolly Parton
Ive never had a divorce, but Ive seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that cant write about it. I take on their sorrow, so Im able to kind of express it, or their joy. – Dolly Parton