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" As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am. "
Comfortable
Far
I Am
" Bob Seger was a huge inspiration. "
Bob
Inspiration
Huge
" Coming up in bars and clubs, I would play anything that had a $20 bill attached to it. I did 'Like a Virgin' in a bar one time for a hundred bucks. "
Anything
Like
Play
" Country has become too homogenized and too commercial. It has lost what makes it special. It's great that it's popular, but then it starts to become watered down. "
Lost
Country
Too
" Country music is the song that speaks to the American condition. It's middle America. Eight out of 10 people. Maybe it's not the No. 1 choice, but they listen to country. "
American
America
Music
" Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice. "
Justice
Experience
Unique
" I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama. "
Am
Blessed
Thankful
" I can't stand making records. "
Making
Stand
Records
" I don't care if I starve. "
Starve
Care
" I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care. "
Me
Focus
Care
" 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. "
Think
Sometimes
Television
" I'd still stand in line all day to get into an AC/DC show, because that was the one show when I was younger that kind of changed my life. Because it was a little wrong. I think I was 14 or 15, first concert without the parents, you know, and they were all worried because we were going to an AC/DC show, and it was an amphitheater. "
Know
Think
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. "
Made
Ticket
Want
" I grew up in North Carolina, and they have a soft drink called Sun Drop. I love the diet version of it. It's the greatest thing on the face of the earth. I always have it in my fridge - bus fridge and home fridge. "
Earth
Sun
Love
" I grew up listening to The Band. I love Lowell George. I love Little Feat, and I was listening to some Springsteen, some of the deep album cuts. I just like the looseness of that kind of music. It all feels like they did it in one take. They let whatever happened happen. If it felt good, they kept it. "
Band
Music
Love
" I have a huge chip on my shoulder. "
Shoulder
Chip
Huge
" I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging. "
New
Hobby
Much
" I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream. "
Being
Keep
I Can
" I'm not a big TV guy, but I love either 'Auction Hunters' or those repo shows on truTV. It's really just glorified 'Jerry Springer' is all it is. Every now and then, it's just mindless entertainment. We'll be on the bus, and we'll laugh at it. Those are my guilty pleasures. "
Bus
Now
Love
" I'm not an early riser; I'm a crack-of-noon guy. "
Guy
Early
" I'm not a trust-fund type. "
Type
" I really love pizza after midnight. "
Midnight
After
Love
" I signed a baby's head one time, which I thought was an odd situation. I had a guy show me a tattoo one time, and he wanted me to sign the tattoo. So I signed the tattoo, and he went across the street and had the signature tattooed. "
Situation
Time
Thought
" I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be. "
Think
You
Music
" I think we make too many records. One record a year is crazy to me. But some people have to sell tickets. The label has to meet their quarterly number: 'We need a record a year.' All of a sudden, the tail's wagging the dog. It's not the music; it's everything else making the music. That's just backwards. It's wrong. "
People
Dog
Crazy
" I've always believed that you put everything into making the best record you can make, regardless of how you release it and regardless of the press and the hype - that the music wins. "
Music
You
Everything
" I've always made music that was representative of real life. "
Real
Real Life
Always
" I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice. "
Injuries
Shows
Voice
" I want to be the guy out there on the edge. "
Out
Want
Guy
" I was in Iowa one time, and I kept trying to fire up the crowd, and I kept saying, 'How's Ohio doing?' For some reason, they just weren't coming around! "
Trying
Time
Saying
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