Dolly Parton is known for her positivity, but even she gets angry from time to time.
In a new interview with Nancy O’Dell on TalkShopLive, Parton opened up about how she deals with the emotion, noting that sometimes it’s necessary.
“Well, you ain’t going to see [my anger],” she pointed out. “I’m just a regular person [and] I’m not one where I’m one person out here and another [in private]. I’m a businessperson. Sometimes you’ve just kind of gotta pitch a fit to get it done or get it done right.”
She Gets Angry If You Mess With Her “Family” Or “Work”
Parton also shared a few things that drive her to anger, including if “someone’s messing with my family or messing with my work.”
“Like I’ve always said, I’ll tell ya where to put it if I don’t like where you got it,” she said. “I think anybody’s like that. You can’t just go through life just floating around getting anything done.”
“I don’t lose my temper, but I use my temper,” Parton continued. “Of course, I’ve lost it a few times but it’s not that I’m losing my temper, I’m trying to use it because sometimes there are just some people you have to speak up to,” she said. “Because if they don’t know, especially as a shock, for somebody like me to raise my voice to people, that’s not what they’re used to.”
“You Gotta Push Me Pretty Far To Get Me Stirred Up”
While the Tennessee native isn’t one to quickly raise her voice, she doesn’t avoid doing it.
“Sometimes it is for an effect because some people just won’t listen otherwise,” she explained. “But, yeah, you gotta push me pretty far to get me stirred up — but then I become my daddy.”
Close to anger is frustration, which Parton experienced while thinking about the news in a moment that led her to write her recent single “World on Fire.”
“With all the greed and the hate and just everything, it just bottled up in me, and I felt I needed to say something because I just felt like I should and somebody might listen,” she shared. “I don’t know how much it will do because we just keep not trying to do as good as we should, and I just really felt like I needed to say something, so I did.”
“I did feel like at least I got that off my chest. At least I got it out there just to make people think, if nothing else,” she continued, adding, “I wasn’t trying to do anything other than I guess relieve my own self and to put a message out there that I thought might be helpful.”
New Album, Rockstar
“World on Fire” is from Parton’s album Rockstar, which will be released on November 17. The project features collaborations with Miley Cyrus, Elton John, Pink, Brandi Carlile, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sting and more major names, including a new version of the Beatles’ “Let It Be” with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.
That song was released last week, marking one of several Parton has already shared from Rockstar.
“Well, does it get any better than singing ‘Let It Be’ with Paul McCartney who wrote the song?,” she said in a statement. “Not only that, he played piano! Well, it did get even better when Ringo Starr joined in on drums, Peter Frampton on guitar and Mick Fleetwood playing percussion. I mean, seriously, how much better does it get? Thanks guys!”
For more information on Dolly Parton and her new album, Rockstar, visit her official website HERE.
