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

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

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.

Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

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.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.