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.

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.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

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've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

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.