As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

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

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

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

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

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

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.