Dolly Parton has 'no time' to get old
Dolly Parton turns 80 in January but insisted she isn't thinking about getting old.
Dolly Parton hasn't "got time to get old".
The Jolene singer will turn 80 in January but she isn't worried about ageing because she feels like she is "just getting started" and has other things to focus on.
She told People magazine: “People say, ‘Well, you’re going to be 80 years old.’ Well, so what? Look at all I’ve done in 80 years. I feel like I’m just getting started.
“I know that sounds stupid, but unless my health gives way, which right now I seem to be doing fine . . . I think there’s a lot to be said about age. If you allow yourself to get old, you will. I say, ‘I ain’t got time to get old!’ I ain’t got time to dwell on that. That’s not what I’m thinking about.”
Dolly - whose husband Carl Dean died earlier this year - has been reflecting on how much she has "sacrificed" for the sake of her career over the years.
Reflecting on her new book, Star of the Show: My Life on Stage , she said: “You know, I have just been going so fast my whole life.
“And I just start thinking, ‘How in the world did I even have a life? How did I even get it done?’ I really realised when I was putting this book together just how much I had sacrificed in my life.
"I never had children, so at least I didn’t have a guilty feeling. I’m thankful that I got to see my dreams come true.”
The 9 to 5 hitmaker has faced sexism throughout her career but has never let that put her off trying new things in the public eye.
She said: “You have to grow into things, and you have to grow out of things; that’s how I handled my career.
“I needed to try things. A lot of people think because you’re a girl, you don’t always know what you’re doing. I don’t care about what other people are doing. I only care about what I need to be doing.
“I don’t try to tell other people how to do it, how to be, but I know who I am.
“I’m a star to everybody but me. I’m just a working girl. I always just say that I’m a workhorse that looks like a show horse.”
