Dolly Parton: What She Learned From The Pandemic

During the last several months as the COVID-19 pandemic has dictated our world, country icon Dolly Parton has been turning to a higher power.

Dolly told the USA Today, "For myself, I have a very spiritual base, and I lean on that. I really think that we're to be learning a lot from this. I know I am personally, but it is scary and it is crazy. You don't know what's going on, and these days, you don't even know how much it's political or whatever. You just have to pray, if you're a faith-based person, for strength."

She adds, "If not, you just have to keep your wits about you and lean on your higher wisdom to know that things happen, and most things we get through, and usually we come out better on the other side."

Parton herself says she's a better person, thanks to what she's learned during the crisis. "Patience, for one thing. I've known that I've just always just been able to just go, go, go, had the freedom to work, go wherever I needed to go. I'm learning a lot more responsibility."

She concludes with, "I think I was a fairly good person, but I think I'm going to be a better person after all this is over. I wrote a song recently called 'When Life Is Good Again.' It's like, "When life is good again, I'll be a better friend, a better person when life is good again." I think if we all look at ourselves like that, that attitude will spill out into the world."