Edited by Randy L. Schmidt
Chicago Review Press, 2017.
As well as being a Dolly Parton fan, who has been to Dollywood in the US, and been to one of her concerts in London, I have known that she has a Christian faith. This book of interviews occasionally touches on that aspect of her life. In an interview in 1978 (page 118-119) she said:
I expect that someday, in someway, before I die I’ll have done some good for God, who I think has done all the good in me that’s ever been done. I think that people for years have passed God right up, looked right past Him, thinkin’ that He was some great monster in the sky and that you had to live with these horrible guilt feelin’s and you had to crawl under a bed if you’d done somethin’ wrong. I have a totally different concept of God. […] We are all God’s children, if we just clear a way for Him to work through us.
Dolly has a persona of being always happy and bubbly, but in an interview in 1984 (page 230) she is quite open:
If you never get depressed, you’re never ever getting down deep enough to think about things. Nobody’s up all the time unless they’re liars, phonies, hypocrites
Adrian Vincent. August 2018.