Country Queen Dolly Parton And Flam"boy"nt Star Boy George Have Perfomed A Duet Together YOUR KISSES ARE CHARITY. I Have This And Can Not Stop Playing It. Their Voices Match Incredibly Believe it or Not. Below Are Excerpts I Found On DOLLY NEWS. For The Full Interview, Please Visit The Site Via This LINK.


By contrast, your new album, "The Grass Is Blue," is bluegrass, a very untrashy art form. What inspired you to record it?

I knew all these songs from when I was 10 years old, but I just never thought there was an outlet for an entire album. Then the album's producer told me that they had done a survey asking, "Who would you most like to make a bluegrass album that has never done one?" Something like 10 to 1, the results said Dolly Parton. I said, "Are you serious?" You know that timing is everything to me. I believe that God is in everything and I never try to force or push nothing. I accept everything as it is as God's will. So it was just the time for this one. Now everybody says: "Oh, Dolly, this bluegrass album is so you. You should never do anything but this kind of music." And I think, "Well, bull!" I also love doing the other stuff.

Like what?

I just did a duet with Boy George called "Your Kisses Are Charity."

You and Boy George. Why didn't anyone think of that before?

He's the sweetest thing in the world. I was just jealous that he outdressed me. During rehearsal, he had on his boy clothes, and then when we came out onstage he had on this long rhinestone necklace and earrings. I leaned over and said, "I wish I'd known, I could have gone a lot further than this!"

Your audience is amazingly diverse, so much so that your concerts can sometimes seem like Benetton ads: older women with blue hair, punk holdovers with red Mohawks, cowboys. Why do you appeal to such different people?

Of course I'd like to think that it's my talent, but I think one reason is that I'm such a character. I'm kind of like Mickey Mouse, like a cartoon. Little kids and older people kind of think I'm a toy, a plaything that they can be close to. People feel that I'm not afraid to be who I am, therefore they can be comfortable being who they are in my presence. I've always accepted people as they are and I think the oddwads of the world kind of know that. I have a big gay following and I've always had a huge drag-queen following, so I think a lot of it is just the personality of being so accepting of everybody else.