Dolly Parton "ain't got time to get old."
The music icon, who turns 80 in January, talked about soon becoming an octogenarian with her signature good-natured humor in a Nov. 12 excerpt from her upcoming cover story for People magazine.
"Everybody says, 'Well, you’re going to be 80 years old.' Well, so what?" she said in a sit-down interview. "Look at all I’ve done in 80 years. I feel like I’m just getting started."
The "Jolene" songstress continued: "I know that sounds stupid, but I think there's a lot to be said about age. If you allow yourself to get old, you will. I say, 'I ain’t got time to get old!' I ain’t got time to dwell on that. That’s not what I’m thinking about."
However, she admitted, "There is a celebration in the fact that I have done so much in that time and that I'm still doing it. I'm grateful for that."
