Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

Church was a requirement, there was no choice in the matter, so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

I'm not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?