Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.