I've seen people who have been coming to my shows for 25 years.

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

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

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.

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

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