I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

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.

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

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.

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.