I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.