Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.

If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

I've always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music, I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.

I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.

After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.