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

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

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

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.