“I guess being brought up in the mountains, where you have little time to do anything but work, and things are so quiet and things are so calm that you grow restless if you have restless blood, and you grow more restless as the years go on, and you want to get out. And when you do, you enjoy it.”

Dolly Parton · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-26

Parton explained in a 1977 interview why she found touring exciting, attributing it to her upbringing in the mountains.