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.

I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

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.

Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

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