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.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

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.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.