What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

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

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

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.