Dolly Parton on family, fashion and rock stardom: ‘I have to be who I am, so I fought for that and I still do’

In a 2023 interview, the country music legend told Roisin O’Connor why she embraced her inner rocker in her late seventies to collaborate with rock greats from Joan Jett to Paul McCartney to Stevie Nicks on her new album, how her goddaughter Miley Cyrus insisted she dress in leather, too, and why she hit out at world leaders who are ‘full of it’ as the world goes ‘down the tube’