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.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.