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A No. 1 record is hard to come by.
I like to fish when it's not too hot.
I've never had the patience of a teacher.
I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.
I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.
Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.
'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.
It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.
I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.
Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.
Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.
It's so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.
Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.
I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.
I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.
I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.
I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.
'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.
I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.
The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.
Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey thats slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.
Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.
I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.
I haven't always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.
I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.
I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.
When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.
What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal.
To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just sink in with me. But it proves to me that music is powerful.
I'm such a perfectionist and I like to have everything just right, but at the same time I try to be as real and as genuine as I can be in my life and in my career.
Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.
We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!
When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?
I don't feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.
I don't feel like God called me to be a gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer; he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.
I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.
I have a nice boat that I got a couple of years ago that's a Skeeter brand that's 20-foot, center-console. I have it set up for saltwater and for fresh water, so it's been a nice boat.
I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.
When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it's hard to break away and just be a songwriter.
I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.
I may never know what type of effect I have on my sons, just like Granny never knew the effect she had on me. So I just try and make the best decisions that I can, be the best father that I can.
'Haywire' is full of different kinds of love songs. It's definitely country and a little something for everybody. I feel like the subject matter goes a little deeper about love and relationships.
My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.
One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.
I care about my legacy that I'm leaving, not only for my fans, but for my wife and my children and my grandchildren. I want them to look back and say, 'He did it right and he stood up for what is right.'
I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I'm always looking forward to seeing what they're going to become and what they're going to be interested in later in life.
I've been mocked a lot. I've been made fun of, you know, of the standards that I keep out, and that I hold out on the road and the way I conduct my business and myself and the way I behave in this business.
I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.