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

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

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

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.

Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

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