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It's a very sad thing to do, to divorce.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Divorce
Sad Thing
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Music is supposed to make you less lonely - that's the whole idea.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Lonely
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Music doesn't need to be perfect, but you'll know when it's right.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
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It's a great place to be as an artist: if you confuse your label, you're doing your job.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Confuse
Great Place
Great Doing Your
Label
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It's hard not to go back and look at my songwriting catalog and go, 'Look, there are 600 to 700 songs here.'
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Songwriting
Look Back Go
Catalog
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I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Instrument
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I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Beans
Thinking
Would Be
Baked
Family Food Great
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My kids don't listen to me when I preach at them. But if I tell them a story they can pull something from, that matters.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Me Story Something
Preach
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You will do things in private and sing in private and make choices in private that you wouldn't make if you were observed.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Observed
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The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Billy Pilgrim
First Time
Firsts
People
Pilgrim
Love Time Music
Billy
How Much
Toured
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The most inspiring thing as an artist is when someone says, 'I believe in you'; sometimes that works even better than Grammys.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Inspiring
Believe Better Sometimes
Grammys
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I love writing music for film and TV, but putting it into a video game is twice as fun because it needs to be repeatable and joyous.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Joyous
Twice
Film And Tv
Love Music Game
Video Game
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There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I maintain that.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Maintain
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My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Song
Trying
Writing
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I believe that melody is such a lost part of music and country music. People are either scared of it or not using all the colors that are available.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Melody
Music Believe I Believe
Country Music
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As a promoter, of course, you'd really want the people who pay for the tickets to come into your venue to really be even more connected with the band.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Connected
Tickets
Your People More
People Your More
Promoter
Venue
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There's an identity thing that goes on where you spend so much time caring for your child that, after a year or so, you have to shake it off and go, 'Who am I?'
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Caring
Identity
Time Where Your
Shake
So Much Time
Who Am I
Your Child
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I'm not necessarily in a vocation where I'm at risk; it's not like I'm a police officer. I'm a musician, so when I leave home, my family expects me to come back.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Police Officer
Vocation
Expects
Officer
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My father was an officer in the Army, and my grandfather served in World War II, and I am so proud of their service. I'll always do whatever I can to support our troops.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Army
Grandfather
Support Our Troops
Troops
World War Ii
War Always World
War World Father
Officer
Served
World War
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You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Anybody Else
Hour
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I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Backstage
Bono
Edge
Grammys
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One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Kings
Country
Song
Tuxedos
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I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Fans
Needed
Thinking
Trying
Time Music Thinking
Exactly
Exactly What
Hear Music
Mainly
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I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Yoga
Book
Meditation
Writing
Day People Every Day
Meditate
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Billy Pilgrim music is very emotional. It's one part the craft we learned from people like the Indigo Girls and R.E.M., and one part the Tom Waits craft, where you're trying to create a moment.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Pilgrim
Billy
Craft
Tom
Tom Waits
Waits
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I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic. And I've always tried to resist those people that say the two can't exist at the same time.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Circles
Radio
Love Time Music
Considered
Exist
Same Time
Tried
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There is a misconception that I've experienced in my life about people that live in the South. I got sent away to school in Connecticut in the late Eighties, and kids were honestly asking me, 'Do people there wear shoes?'
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Connecticut
Misconception
Life Me Shoes
Eighties
Experienced
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Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone panicked, like, 'I don't know what happened to country music, but this isn't it.'
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Country Music
Forgets
Panicked
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Sugarland was a band we started to try to make things better. It was in the aftermath of 9-11; it was in the aftermath of my mother dying... there was a lot of weird stuff that had gone on that made you want to start something good.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Aftermath
Dying
Something Good
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I get intimidated by famous people. When I'm around them and they look at me like I belong, I'm like, 'Are you nuts? You're freakin' famous!' Whether it's Elmo or a Beatle or Vince Gill, it's humbling to be in a room with these folks.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Humbling
Intimidated
Nuts
Beatle
Belong
Famous People
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When I got my record deal at Atlantic, at the time, 'indie' wasn't a style of music: it was a kind of label. And I think, eventually, the bands that ended up on those labels began to be branded as 'indie bands,' and then it became a genre.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Branded
Genre
Atlantic
Time Music Style
Began
Ended
Indie
Label
Record Deal
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I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone - children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Courage
Yoga
Accountants
Drivers
Stars
Truck
Athletes
Biggest Challenge
Dads
Moms
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As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Couple
Dots
Tattoo
Arm
Couple Of Years Ago
Gosh
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I've tried to start my kids on 'Doctor Who,' but they're just not there yet. Someone had given me these TARDIS stick-em notes, so I gave them to Tucker, and he finally put them all over his locker. I'm like, 'You're the coolest fifth grader, ever!'
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Doctor Who
Fifth
Notes
Doctor
Coolest
Finally
Locker
Tucker
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You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most are in the lyrics that 'show' more than 'tell.' I like to describe what the listener is seeing and let them make up the middle rather than telling them.
Kristian Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Song
Style
Writing
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