I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?

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

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

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.

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.

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.