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.

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

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

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

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

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

There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.