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

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.