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.

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

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.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

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