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

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

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.

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

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.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.