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.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?