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

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

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

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.

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

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.