Parton’s family has been a big part of keeping her down-to-earth.
In a 2014 interview withSouthern Living, she talked about how many of her songs are about her childhood.
“I’ve always been proud of who I was and of my people.
I was proud of where I was from.
And the older I get, the more sappy I get about my childhood.”
“I remember myself being so proud of that statue…
I thought, ‘A statue of me in the courthouse yard?
That’s usually reserved for presidents and people that have done really great things like that.'”
And Daddy said, ‘Well yeah, I heard about that.’
And he said, ‘Now to your fans out there you might be some sort of an idol.
But to them pigeons, you ain’t nothing but another outhouse."
Parton revealed that her dad would regularly visit the statue and keep it clean.
“That touched me so much,” she said.
