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

My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.

After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.

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.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

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