If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

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

I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.