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

Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

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

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

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

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