Singer Dolly Parton says she goes upto mountains and fasts before writing new music.

The 68-year-old likes to set aside time to get into a `spiritual place` by herself as she thinks it helps her in her creative process, reports contactmusic.com.

`One of my favourite things to do in the world is to have time set aside, like two or three weeks, to say I'm just going to write,` she said.

`Go up to my old mountain home. I fast and pray for a few days to get myself into kind of a spiritual place, even get through the headaches and everything with the fasting til I get kind of... Yeah, I hate to fast.But once I get into the writing, then it starts to be creative,` she added.