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“You don't have to look like this, you’re very beautiful, you don’t have to wear the blonde wigs, you don’t have to wear the extreme clothes, right?�� asked Barbara Walters of living legend Dolly Parton in the classic insult-compliment-question format in a resurfaced 1977 interview.Parton, wearing a giant blonde wig with a turquoise flower to match her bright turquoise jumpsuit, did not take the bait. “It’s certainly a choice,�� said Parton. “I don’t like to be like everybody else.�� She followed up with some words to live by: “I would never stoop so low to be fashionable, that’s the easiest thing in the world to do.�� Walters continued her similar line of questioning: “Do you feel like you're a joke, that people make fun of you?”“Oh, I know they make fun of me, but all these years, the people have thought the joke was on me, but it’s actually on them,�� said Parton. “I am sure of myself as a person. I am sure of my talent. I’m sure of my love for life and that sort of thing. I am very content, I like the kind of person that I am. So, I can afford to piddle around and do-diddle around with makeup and clothes and stuff because I am secure with myself.�� You can watch the full interview here. Twitter resurfaced the interview clip last week and it got nearly 2 million views, further proof Parton was ahead of her time in the interview. Some are using an old country phrase to comment on Walters' line of questioning: “Bless your heart.��