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

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

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

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

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.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.