Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.
The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.