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In the digital age we're in now, with satellite radio and Pandora and stuff like that, it's not about, "I listen to this kind of music." It's about, "I listen to good music and bad music."
I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.
There's just a lot of people that hold on to what country means to them. I love fiddle, I love steel, but I don't think it should be a rule that it has to be used in every song. I think that's not what defines or makes country music.
I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.
The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.
The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.
The biggest thing is to continue to do what you do. A lot of people, when they get to a certain level, start thinking about it too much and they change what they do.
I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.
When I first started, you could go to a college campus and it was not cool to wear a country artist's shirt on campus. It was taboo, and there was a stigma involved. In the time from then till now, I'm amazed at how much things have changed. It's young now, it's cool, it's hip
Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.
Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.
I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me.
Stay young and wild as long as you can
When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.
I've always made music that was representative of real life.
The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.
Country fans are the best fans out there because of the loyalty, and the way that they apply your music to every aspect of their life.
If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.
I can't stand making records.
Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.
I don't care if I starve.
Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.
The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.
I'm not a guy who can go in and go, "Hey, are we doing right or wrong?" I just do it. And whatever it is, it is.
I want to be the guy out there on the edge.
Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.
I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging.
I'm not a trust-fund type.
I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.
I have a huge chip on my shoulder.
As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.