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

I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

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.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

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

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.