Excellent compilation of interviews conducted by various magazines with Dolly Parton with the first one from 1967 and the last from 2014. By reading you can see her develop from a singer to a well informed business woman. She seems like she had a path planned for her life, with lots of ambition, and has been able to achieve the success she has longed for. While not a true autobiography, you do learn about her early life as well as her relationship with her husband Carl Dean. I came to admire her more and more as I read each interview (although in many things were repeated) as she is an independent lady who has such a positive attitude. From this book you come to admire her confidence in the day after she was the first of her family to graduate high school, she left for Nashville; her belief in herself for standing up to Porter Waggoner who tried to suppress her style; her talent as not only is she a great singer and songwriter but she is an actress, author of books, and working on a Broadway musical; her philanthropy in providing not only to jobs to those in Sevier County, Tennessee but also each child born in the county receives one book a month until they turn 5 years of age in order to promote reading; her business acumen in realizing the publishing rights to her music were valuable and not allowing even Elvis to infringe on them as well as expanding her reach from country to pop to bluegrass to rock; her commitment to family where she raised her younger siblings and has been married to the same man (who she met on her very first day in Nashville since 1966); and her translating her faith to life in not judging people who are not like her. A great book for any fan of Dolly Parton. Her frustrations that she has reached an age where the radio stations are not playing her songs anymore shows how even someone with her talent has problems in the industry. ( )