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.

I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

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.

I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.

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.

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

There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.