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.

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

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.

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.

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

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

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.