Dolly Parton is a goddess. The 63 years old music legend and goddess on earth tells AARP Magazine about rumors of her impending retirement, “After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over… I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.” Show them how it’s done, Dolly!

People Magazine has some quotes from Dolly’s AARP cover interview, and she’s just as sassy and lovely as ever. People calls her a “country legend” but she’s a lot more than that. She’s a legend for all musicians, a legend for female businesswomen, a legend for the South, a feminist legend.

God, I could talk about how much I love Dolly Parton all day. She’s just that amazing. Did you know that she’s written more than 3,000 songs? And that she owns all of her songs – her whole catalog, which is why she’s so rich. Everyone covers her songs, and everyone pays her royalties.

At 63, country legend Dolly Parton has 80 albums, 25 No. 1 singles, 3,000 songs and even a theme park to her name. But the woman behind the quarter-billion-dollar empire says she’s still just a little ol’ country gal.

“Daddy would get up in the morning and work till he had to go to his job doing construction,” Parton says in the May/June issue of AARP. “Then he’d come home and still be workin’ on the farm till way after dark. We used to soak Daddy’s old feet. Mama had some kind of salve she’d made up for Daddy’s hands because they’d crack and bleed, and I remember rubbing Daddy’s hands with it.”

And those closest to her remember her at that same simple girl, she says, including husband Carl Dean and best friend Judy Ogle.

“They knew me before I became a star. They still see me as me,” Parton says.

She dismisses longstanding rumors of her and Ogle being lesbian lovers.

“We’re absolutely, totally honest, open, and comfortable with each other,” Parton says. “We’ve been accused of being lovers. We do love each other, but we’ve never been like that.”

But one thing is true, Parton adds. She’ll never quit music. “After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over,” she insists. “I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.”

[From People]

It would make my life if Dolly Parton were a lesbian. I don’t know why, I would just love it. But she’s been married to Carl for something like 45 years, and she takes a very open-minded, realistic view of marriage. I’ve heard her say in the past that sometimes she and Carl need to be apart from each other for months at a time, but that it’s all good.

Here’s Dolly arriving at the Vanity Fair Oscars Party. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .