“Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from ...” — Dolly Parton Quote

“Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.”

“A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.”

“I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.”

“It's an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that's success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then that's something we need to watch and stop.”

“My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.”

“To some degree, I think playing yourself has to be earned.”