Hymns Are Companions For Life Travelers.

I Am Proud Of Being A Southerner. I Wasn't About To Let Southerners On My Show Be Stupid Or Aw-shuckses Who Just Sit On The Front Porch And Spit In The Yard. I Wasn't About To Do That, And I Made That Very Clear From The Start. I Was Kind Of The Gate-keeper On That Stuff.

I Wanted To Prove That I Could Play Something Else, But There Were 249 Episodes Out There Of 'mayberry,' And It Was Aired Every Day. It Was Hard To Escape.

I Am Proud Of My Connections To Carolina And Pleased To Know That Some Results From A Lifetime Of Work On Television, Film, Stage And Recordings Will Have A Permanent Home In Chapel Hill.

I Sang 'a Closer Walk With Thee' Along With Blues Singer Brownie Mcghee, ... Then There Was A Show Where Carol Houston, An Actress On 'matlock' Sang 'it Is Well With My Soul' Accompanied By A Choir. Boy, That Was Powerful.

I Was Baptized Alongside My Mother When I Was 8 Years Old. Since Then, I Have Tried To Walk A Christian Life... And Now That I'm Getting Older, I Realized That I'm Walking Even Closer With My God.