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My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.

I have a very long and beautiful love affair with Elvis Presley. I own every record he ever made, so I have about 150, almost 200 records of his. So much that I haven't even listened to all of them. I see an Elvis record that I don't have, and I'll buy it and put it in my collection.

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.

I was signed to RCA to be a country singer.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.

Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.