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

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.

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

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

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

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.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.