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

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

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

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.

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