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

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

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

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.

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.