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

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.

I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

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.

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

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.