Dolly Parton explains how she and husband of 58 years avoid arguments

"He's quiet and I'm loud, and we're funny," she told Jelly Roll's wife on the podcast. "Oh, he's hilarious. And I think one of the things that's made it last so long through the years is that we love each other [and] we respect each other, but we have a lot of fun. Anytime [there's] too much tension going on, either one of us can like, find a joke about it to really break the tension, where we don't let it go so far."

While Dean has been Parton's biggest supporter, he's made it a point to remain out of the spotlight all these years. 

"He loves music, but he's not the least bit interested in being in it. And he told me that right up front," she told Bunnie Xo. 

"I begged him to go with me in '67. We'd got married in '66. So, that's when I won the first award for the BMI song of the year ("Put it Off Until Tomorrow."). And I rented him a tux and, you know, begged him to go, and he did. And, oh, he was so uncomfortable the whole night."

When they returned home, Parton said Dean "started pulling off stuff" immediately.

"He said, 'Look, now I want you to do everything you want to do, and I wish you the best, but don't ever ask me to go to another one of these damn things because I ain't going.' And he never did," she said. 

"So we just kind of have that respect, and I respected that because I didn't know he was gonna be that uneasy, but he doesn't even like to go out to, you know, to big dinners or anything like that," she added.

"He was a homebody, and that worked well for us," she said. "I don't know if anybody out there goes by astrology or pays attention to that. But he's Cancer, and I'm Capricorn, and those are compatible signs. He loved to go places, if we were going to drive cross-country or if we had planned a thing. But, boy, he could never wait to get home."

"He wanted to be around home, and I'm a gypsy by nature," she added. "I just love to go and love to see what else is out there. But, I think... that's worked well for us."