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

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

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.

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

Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.

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.