“ROCKSTAR” SINGER DOLLY PARTON 
AIR DATE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH

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VIDEOS:

Dolly Parton on Mae West Inspiring Her

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/9opRPUEeSgqz

Dolly: Mae West she used to sit in her wheelchair…

Drew: You loved Mae West.

Dolly: I do. She was someone I identified with because she was little and she loved being gaudy and big and showing her stuff.

Drew: My favorite joke of hers to this day is, ‘Ms. West we’ve got thirty men outside waiting to see you,’ and she goes, ‘Oh honey I’m tired, send ten of them home.’

Dolly: I loved all her little quips.

Drew: You put a dress of hers in this.

Dolly: Is the picture of me dressed as her in there?

Drew: There’s a few nods to her but there’s a gown you put in here that was very lacy and only had coverage in that triangular area…

Dolly on Loving a Variety of People

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/CVT2xELJM0NM 

Drew: You say things in a way that is very who you are and what you believe, and yet you say it in a way that includes everybody else.

Dolly: Well I love everybody. I always know that there’s a little god light, that little thing in every human being and I try to go to that because I know that nobody would be the way they are if they could be different. I wrote a song called, ‘Whatever you wanna be, be that, whatever you wanna do, do that,’ cause anything else is just an act. I’m not a good enough person or a good enough Christian to judge and criticize other people. I want to be loved and accepted so the least I can do is try to love and accept other people. And I love the difference in people. Just like that spice, the variety of life being spicy. If everybody was the same it would be a boring life wouldn’t it.

Drew & Dolly on Their Playboy Covers & Butterfly Connection

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/qlv0vSFfOKcU 

Drew: Here we are.

Dolly: Look at us. Well I’ve got less clothes than you. You’re showing your little butterfly. You’re showing your little belly and I’m showing my big personality.

Drew: The butterfly connection also speaks to me because butterflies meant so much to me as a kid and they’re such a signature for you and I’m looking a little ‘come hither’ in this photograph.

Dolly: Oh you look cute.

Drew:…I love that we have this connection and it’s scary for me to dare to even say I have so much connection or commonalities or aspirations towards you but I look at the hair, I look at the butterflies, I look at the encouragement to be who they truly are…that’s why you’re so important to me. There’s no one who doesn’t love you on the planet.

Dolly: Oh there is but we don’t want to hear about them.

Dolly on Only Taking Phone Calls and Faxes and Not Texting

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/jyZANDX3V4WP 

Dolly: I always say I’m a low tech girl in a high tech world but I surround myself with all these people that are into this high tech world, but I don’t want to talk to everybody that wants to talk to me. I don’t text because I don’t want to have to answer. If somebody calls me I’ll answer if I want to talk to them or I’ll call them back when I can otherwise I got too much to think about to clutter my mind up with everything else. I’m certainly not a stupid person. I could learn it if I wanted to but I’d rather just have my fax machine, call in my creative stuff to my crew and I’ve got the best crew in the world and I surround myself with great people, but I just don’t have time to sit with my face in a phone all day.

Dolly on Why She Did a Rock & Roll Album

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/VkEPDif7bnfT

Drew: Does rock embody everything for you, does it embody country and theatrics and hair and makeup…is it a good melting pot of so much of who you are, is that why…?

Dolly: Is that why I did this rock album? Well actually they put me in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Drew: And you were apprehensive.

Dolly: And they did it anyhow and I accepted it gracefully. And then I thought, ‘Well I’m gonna have to earn my keep. If I’m gonna be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame years after I’m gone I wanna at least have some reason to be there other than what they said.’ So I thought, ‘Well I’m gonna do a rock album.’ I’m just gonna have that so years from now…I wanted to have something. So I actually got to work with some of the great iconic artists singing some of the great iconic songs.

Dolly on Goddaughter Miley Cyrus & Other Female Rock Icons Being on Her Album

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/pLUYrNsCMReo 

Drew: Your goddaughter is Miley Cyrus.

Dolly: Miley. We did ‘Wrecking Ball’ on the album together. Don’t you love her? She’s so talented, so special. She knows who she is….people are always saying, ‘Do you help Miley do you tell her what to do?’ I said, ‘No Miley’s Miley. Miley’s gonna know what to do cause she knows who she is.’…but working with all those great women is great. And we had a lot of wonderful girls on my rock album. I had P!nk, Brandi Carlile, Pat Benatar…we just all had a great time on this. I didn’t want to have all the guys on the ‘Rockstar’ album I wanted some great girl power.