I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.

People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

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

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

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.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.