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

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.

I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

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

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.