I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

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

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

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

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

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.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.