The young people look great on television. They’re youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven’t got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world's going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.