Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

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

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.