Dolly Parton: "Always Keep Something Just For Yourself"

The country music legend talks about her new album, Pure & Simple, and why you should stick to your crazy ideas.

The country music legend talks about her new album, Pure & Simple, and why you should stick to your crazy ideas.

Dolly Parton has spent more than 50 years with the things she loves, whether it's a career in country music that has spanned over 40 albums and numerous awards or her husband, with whom she recently celebrated 50 years of matrimony by renewing their vows. Parton is famous for her supreme ability to tell stories through her music, her movies, and her life—the ultimate rags-to-riches story about growing up in a small East Tennessee town (and modeling her style after "the town trollop"). She has since become a star as celebrated for her songwriting as for her business acumen (her nonprofit, Dolly's Imagination Library, has donated more than 40 million books to children across the U.S.)

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