Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.