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

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.

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

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.

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.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.