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.

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

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.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.