I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.