The 71-year-old country music legend says if she ever decides to retire it would be because of health concerns, reported Femalefirst.
"I don't know what in the world I would do, I don't even know what that word retire means. I'd only do that if my husband was ill and needed me to be there, or if I was too sick to go on.
"And then I would still be writing songs, coming up with business ideas, being on the phone, creating. That old saying, 'I'd rather wear out that rust out', I think I would rust out pretty quickly if I wasn't busy," Parton says.
"A lot of wonderful things. Some of them are beautiful and some of them are not. But I haven't the heart to throw any of it away. I have a big old bunch of storage on my property and I have an area I call the arts and crap building, so I put all the arts and crap in there.
"It's all precious and I know they spent as much time on the bad ones as the good. Some of them have even made it into my museum.