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.

Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

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

Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...