Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

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.

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

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

A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.

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

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.