Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

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

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

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