Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.

It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.