The country music legend Dolly Parton revealed in a new interview recently that she gets up every morning at 3am for one reason.

In an interview for Marie Claire Magazine, Parton explained to RuPaul that she “stumbles out of bed” every morning at 3am because she is always more productive early in the morning.

“I’m always, almost always up for good around 3 a.m.,” the 74 year-old icon explained. “So I do some of my best spiritual work, some of my best writing, and some of my business work—call-ins and letters that I’m writing or whatever—between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m,” she explained. “I get more work done during that little period of time when the world is calm, energies are down, and I just feel like a farmer. They say the early bird gets the worm. Well, they also get a lot of good ideas too.”

Describing herself as “a very spiritual person,” Parton said there is one step of her morning routine that she never skips.

“Every single day, before I do anything, I wake up and I thank God for the night and ask him to bless the day and to bring all the right things … all the wrong people out of my life, and bring all the right stuff in,” she said. “And just to guide me, lead me. And I always pray that he’ll let me uplift mankind and glorify Him.”

Parton is typically joined for breakfast by Carl Dean, her husband of 54 years.

“This morning I made breakfast for my husband and me,” she said. “I made some sausage patties, and I baked some biscuits, and I made some milk gravy. He likes that once in a while. Now, I can’t eat like that all the time, but I enjoy eating it when I do.”

As for how she maintains her energy, Parton said, “I don’t require a lot of sleep. Three to five hours I can work on … But usually, if I’m on the job, I’ll take a little power nap.”

A lot of the time, however, she doesn’t even need a nap at all.

“I’m energized by just what I do,” Parton explained. “It’s like, work begets work, energy begets energy. I just really stay alive because I just live on creative and spiritual energy. I’m like the little Energizer Bunny. I’m just recharged by the excitement of being able to still be active and to still be able to create stuff and to be still in demand.”

“That’s exciting to me, that I have all these fans that care about me, and I love us sharing that kind of love and that kind of energy,” she added. “You know how that feels. People love you. And that’s a great feeling to know that people care about you, and so it kind of generates its own kind of energy.”

Even if Parton is going to be home all day, she still always gets dolled up in the morning.

“I have to always stay ready—street ready,” she said. “I have to keep my makeup on and keep my hair done. But I actually do wear high heels most of the time. I have to wear [them] in order to reach my cabinets. But I always enjoy wearing the shoes too, and I just feel more like me.”