We had about 30 songs. I picked some I thought my mom would really like and some I liked. We went in with piano and acoustic guitar, and overdubbed organ on some of them, and...

I’ve had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

My mother kept asking me, ‘When are you going to do a gospel album?’ And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

I’ve always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you’ve got to have a tour to support that.

I’ve played this thing as long as I can remember, I guess. I’ll tell you what ? this building sounds a lot better than the other one.