A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.

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

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

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 began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.