I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
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 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.