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

I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.

How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?

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

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

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.