My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.
I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.
First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.
Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.
My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.
We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
I don't kiss nobody's butt.
You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.
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.
My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.
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.
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.
