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

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.

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

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.

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

Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.