Dolly Parton – HuffPost 4.16.14

Mike Ragogna: Dolly, I have to ask you my traditional question. What is your advice for new artists?

Dolly Parton: Well as I’ve often said, I try not to give advice, I just try to pass on some information. But I think it’s true with anything, like that old saying, “To thine own self be true,” I think there’s really so much to that, that people know what they really want, they know what their strength and their talent really is and I think you need to be willing to sacrifice that if you have to. You’ve got to protect it, you’ve got to fight for it and if you really are that good and you really have that much faith in it, if you really stay in it long enough changes are it will happen and if it don’t I’ve always said, if you’re really dreaming an impossible dream, you should know that it’s okay to change dreams in the middle of a stream. If it’s something that’s not going to happen you can still rework it and apply what you’ve learned from the other stuff to a new dream.