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" As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show. "
Show
Kid
Me
" Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision. "
Strong
People
Football
" I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you. "
Know
Honest
You
" I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth. "
Tell
Truth
Country
" I got my first acting role because I was a singer. "
Acting
Because
Got
" I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler. "
Time
Long Time
Up
" I grew up with action movies in my head. "
Action Movies
Action
Head
" I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too. "
House
Car
Always
" I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage. "
American
Proud
Long
" In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity. "
Get
Gift
You
" I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer. "
Acting
Career
Me
" I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again. "
Fun
Country
Music
" It's funny that a lot of the fans of 'Angel' have come over and hung out with me on 'Leverage.' I was so fortunate to have been on that show. It created one of the best fan groups ever. I just have the best fans in the world. "
World
Me
Fans
" It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that. "
Never
Become
Understood
" I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait. "
Want
Fortunate
Nashville
" I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my home town, that's where I'm from. Physically I'm a Texan, but I'm an Oklahoman. "
High
College
Street
" I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid. "
Writing
Happy
Back
" Jimmy Fallon is one of the funniest son of a guns I've ever seen. "
Jimmy
Ever
Funniest
" Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was playing some old school rock and roll, and we got together and thought, 'Hey, let's take this on the road.' "
Best
Best Friend
Together
" My influences are Alice in Chains and Elton John. "
Influences
Elton John
Chains
" My mom's always been a good cook, so I took a lot of stuff from her, but most of the stuff I took from Emeril or Bobby Flay right off the TV and make it. I just loved to cook, so it just became a thing. It's a release. Even if I'm alone, I'll cook a full meal, maybe even a two-course meal, just because I love to cook. It's my secret love! "
Love
Loved
Mom
" On 'Angel' I got to work a lot with Mike Massa, who was David Boreanaz' stunt double, and Mike would let me do most of my stuff by myself. I did almost all my fight scenes by myself. "
Fight
Work
Myself
" The fun of the game is right now. A lot of people don't really realize that. They think you have to get to the top to start having fun, and it's not. It's the journey getting to the top where everything is always great. I'm on the 'Ferris Bueller' thing where I look around every once in a while so I don't miss it. "
Having Fun
People
Fun
" The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role. "
Dancing
Talent
Singer
" When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song. "
Words
Writing
Beginning
" You're not going to hear me sing about being on a tractor or being married... because I don't know anything about that. "
Me
Know
Going
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