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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.

I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it.

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

Radio for years and years looked at the same pool of talent. I always believed there were other people in the world that could do radio shows.

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.