New Delhi, Nov. 16 -- Dolly Parton is steadily recovering from her kidney infection diagnosis, which was followed by her husband, Carl Dean's, death in March this year. Amid the publication of her memoir, Star of the Show: My Life on Stage, the 79-year-old singer-songwriter and actress opened up about her morning routine and fashion choices to People magazine.

Dolly Parton told People that she regularly wakes up at 3 AM or even "earlier than that" at times. The Unlikely Angel star says her dad, Robert Lee Parton, inspired her to become "an early bird".

"That's when I do all my spiritual work, my prayers and my dreaming, my thinking, when all the energies of the world have kind of died down," Parton told the outlet.

"The older you get, ...