Glen Campbell

Roger Miller opened a lot of people's eyes to the possibilities of country music, and it's making more impact now because it's earthy material: stories and things that happen to everyday people. I call it 'people music.'

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

I know it was raw in some places, and I was a jerk in some places, but that's the way I was, and I was stupid.

You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'

I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.

Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I'm the seventh son of 12 kids - eight boys and four girls. Mom and Dad handled that very well. But I wanted to get out.

We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.

I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream to Kenny Rogers. We had a lot of country, but we did every kind of music. The Monkees were on, and so was Johnny Cash.

I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks.