As long as I can sing halfway decent, I’d rather sing than act. There’s nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

Dallas was enormous. I couldn’t believe it. My life changed. From being out of it, I was suddenly a star, known to more people than ever before.

I got a job as an auto mechanic, and I would have stayed in that narrow kind of life if I hadn’t discovered art. Music changed me completely.

It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.