Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

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

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

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.

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

I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.