Dolly Parton weighs in on her love for the Holidaays

Dolly Parton recently got candid about her own love for Christmas and its place on her priorities list, all while promoting her holidays-themed book titled Billy the Kid Comes Home for Christmas.

While speaking to People magazine, Parton said, “In this book, performers have the dilemma of whether we go on the road or whether we take shows for money, because so many artists get so much money offered to actually perform at certain things during the holiday season.”

“But to love your family, and for that to be a family tradition. You always want to be home for Christmas, and that’s kind of what this little book is about.”

For those unversed with the book, “Billy gets a big offer to work at the Barcafella Center, and so he’s already promised that he’d be home for Christmas, and so eventually he gets there.”

“But then there’s a lot of fun, story and everything in between.”

Before signing off she also dished on her own love for Christmas time and admitted, “I love being home for Christmas, and so far I’ve missed all kinds of holidays, but to my knowledge I have never not been home for Christmas.”

She even added, “[I love] the tradition of being home for Christmas, and being with family, and having all the good food and all the different dishes that different family members make, and just the music, and just all the festivities of the lights and the sounds, and everything to do with Christmas.”