There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.