I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
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.
Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
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.