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

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

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

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

There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

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