India, Nov. 16 -- Dolly Parton is letting fans into her private world. In an interview with People, the 79-year-old music icon reveals that she still wakes up at 3 AM, sometimes even earlier. She says these early hours are when she feels most peaceful and connected.

"That's when I do all my spiritual work, my prayers and my dreaming," she explains. She adds that she enjoys the time when the world is silent: "When all the energies of the world have kind of died down."

Parton believes this habit comes from her late father, Robert, who was a tobacco farmer and always up before sunrise. "I'm like my dad," she says. "And the older you get, the earlier you wake up." She also admits that she doesn't need much sleep and jokes that she doesn't w...