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

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.

I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used to pick cotton, and I felt like even then I was somebody. I have the same feet, hands and heart like everyone else. I'm just also blessed with a good voice.

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

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.