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

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.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

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.

There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

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.