Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

I was born into a family of preachers.

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.