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

My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.

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

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

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.

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

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.