I was smart or lucky or both. I saved my money. I was on TV for 10 years, and then I spent eight more years on the road. Working on the road is where you really can save money if you put your mind to it.
I guess I like to sing more than just about anything else in the world.
Kids are more rewarding than anything in life. They are the most enthusiastic, honest people in the world. And so beautiful. They look at me like an old friend.
My life hasn't been the norm. The most interesting parts are before I got into show business.
If I can't afford a house, or afford to keep it, I don't want to have it.
Ray Aghayan told me to be more flamboyant, but I have to be me.
Life for my family was a real struggle, as it was for most in those farming communities in Alabama.
I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.
Let's face it: dancing isn't one of my strong points.
No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later.
People I knew in high school have gone in many directions, as I have gone in my particular direction. They now have different and absorbing interests of their own, just as I have mine.
I don't like the pressure of TV.
After I sang 'Back Home In Indiana' the first time, I became a Hoosier.
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.
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.
It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.
