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.

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

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.