I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.

After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.