Making a success in show business is like getting a big promotion on a job. You get more prestige, more authority, more money - and you also get longer hours, more work, and more responsibility. It evens out.

In Hollywood, I was used to being on a dirty old sound stage, and the whole crew is just scratching themselves. They don't care who you are.

After I sang 'Back Home In Indiana' the first time, I became a Hoosier.

I don't like the pressure of TV.

No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later.

Let's face it: dancing isn't one of my strong points.

I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.

Life for my family was a real struggle, as it was for most in those farming communities in Alabama.

I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.

Ray Aghayan told me to be more flamboyant, but I have to be me.