It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

I think it was 37 years that I did music.