At 74, Dolly Parton is still writing music, funding vaccines, acting, performing, and running various business ventures. Ever wonder how she has accomplished so much? The country music legend “stumbles out of bed” every morning at 3am. In a new interview with RuPaul Charles for Marie Claire, she explains why.
“I’m always, almost always up for good around 3am," she said. "So I do some of my best spiritual work, some of my best writing, and some of my business work—call-ins and letters that I’m writing or whatever—between 3am and 7am.
“I get more work done during that little period of time when the world is calm, energies are down, and I just feel like a farmer. They say the early bird gets the worm. Well, they also get a lot of good ideas too.”
By 9am, Dolly has already been awake for six whole hours. How does she maintain her energy?
“I don’t require a lot of sleep,” she said. “Three to five hours I can work on … But usually, if I’m on the job, I’ll take a little power nap.”
She doesn’t always need the break, though.
“I’m energized by just what I do,” she explained. “It’s like, work begets work, energy begets energy. I just really stay alive because I just live on creative and spiritual energy. I’m like the little Energizer Bunny. I’m just recharged by the excitement of being able to still be active and to still be able to create stuff and to be still in demand.”
She continued: “That’s exciting to me, that I have all these fans that care about me, and I love us sharing that kind of love and that kind of energy. You know how that feels. People love you. And that’s a great feeling to know that people care about you, and so it kind of generates its own kind of energy.”
She also admits that she puts on make-up, does her hair and even wears high heels, even if she's staying home. However, there's a practical reason behind the heels.
“I have to wear [them] in order to reach my cabinets,” she quipped. “But I always enjoy wearing the shoes too, and I just feel more like me.”
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