I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

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.

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.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.