It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

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.

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

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.

Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.