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

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

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.

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