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

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.

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

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

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

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

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.