The best quotes from Dolly Parton's cookbook promotional tour

On Taylor Swift: "I just admire her very much and how she's handled her business, her personal life, and what all she has meant to so many young people," Parton told Variety.

• "Lord knows we need some uplifting people and things this day and time."

On Beyonce's "Cowboy Carter": "I thought that was a great album," Parton said in Variety. "She's a country girl in Texas and Louisiana, so she grew up with that base. It wasn't like she just appeared out of nowhere."

On childhood: "I think we just grew up in a family of love and respect, and we didn't have anything money could buy, so we learned to feel rich by the love and the understanding and caring that we felt in our family," Parton told "The Today Show."

On groundhogs: "Mama used to make groundhog," Dolly told People. "That was Daddy's favorite thing. A groundhog is just like a big fat hog that runs around in the woods. ... It tastes very much like a pig, but I wouldn't want to eat one now."