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

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

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.

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.

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

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

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