he would be a billionaire if he had an education because had he a good mind and you have to work. you have to work for your living. you have to have instill those value. of the golden rule. try to just try to live by that. the treat your neighbor like you would yourself. tl have those valu values. try to help everybody else because you will need the help. reporter: you mention about the role that faith played in your life. musically. i have seen so many people who are routed in the church that s where the music heart came from whether whitney had you stop or aretha franklin. so many people had that sort of grounding. was that your original sort of music influence and how things started for you in terms of singing and song writing? well, my mother and all my femur, all the smokey mountain music, they were either singing the songs from church or they were singing those old mountain
they don t record anything they have to publish they didn t tell me that until they prepped and inserrated me to the stawd why. and colonel tom tells me that. you can t have it. reporter: you told him no. i had to. reporter: that s great. most people wouldn t be able to say no to elvis. that s right. for two days i cry. after whitney came out with it then i realized that i was lucky that i had kept publishing the copy right so the those are decisions that you have to make on spur of the moment and thank god i made the right one. although i still think of elvis sing that go it would have been great. her version of that obviously was was a huge, huge turning point for her career. her life turned out to be such a tragedy. such a horrible tragedy. ty guess in all of us we see a life like that so much raw talent and ability, is
manager avenues brilliant man they don t record anything they have to publish they didn t tell me that until they prepped and inserrated me to the stawd why. and colonel tom tells me that. you can t have it. reporter: you told him no. i had to. reporter: that s great. most people wouldn t be able to say no to elvis. that s right. for two days i cry. after whitney came out with it then i realized that i was lucky that i had kept publishing the copy right so the those are decisions that you have to make on spur of the moment and thank god i made the right one. although i still think of elvis sing that go it would have been great. her version of that obviously was was a huge, huge turning point for her career. her life turned out to be such a tragedy. such a horrible tragedy. ty guess in all of us we see a life like that so much raw talent and ability, is
he would be a billionaire if he had an education because had he a good mind and you have to work. you have to work for your living. you have to have instill those value. of the golden rule. try to just try to live by that. the treat your neighbor like you would yourself. tl have those valu values. try to help everybody else because you will need the help. reporter: you mention about the role that faith played in your life. musically. i have seen so many people who are routed in the church that s where the music heart came from whether whitney had you stop or aretha franklin. so many people had that sort of grounding. was that your original sort of music influence and how things started for you in terms of singing and song writing? well, my mother and all my femur, all the smokey mountain music, they were either singing the songs from church or they were singing those old mountain
had an education because had he a good mind and you have to work. you have to work for your living. you have to have instill those value. of the golden rule. try to just try to live by that. the treat your neighbor like you would yourself. tl have those valu values. try to help everybody else because you will need the help. reporter: you mention about the role that faith played in your life. musically. i have seen so many people who are routed in the church that s where the music heart came from whether whitney had you stop or aretha franklin. so many people had that sort of grounding. was that your original sort of music influence and how things started for you in terms of singing and song writing? well, my mother and all my femur, all the smokey mountain music, they were either singing the songs from church or they were singing those old mountain