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" But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall. "
Fall
Realize
Lose
" I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm! "
Thanksgiving
Day
Morning
" I am spiritual. I believe God loves and is pulling for all of us. "
I Believe
I Am
Believe
" If I spent the rest of my life getting even with the people that had helped me out, I would never settle the score. "
Me
Life
My Life
" I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. "
Good Food
Music
Family
" I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings. "
Cap
Weddings
Guess
" I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life. "
Rock
Back
Singing
" I started doing some demos and got online and bought a refurbished laptop, bought a microphone off of eBay. A lot of folks said you can't really do it that way at a pro level, but I did some vocals that way, turned it into the label and they said, 'Wow, where did you record this? The vocals sound great!' "
Sound
Great
Doing
" It's still a trip for me to see somebody that I've only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it's very different. When we played Detroit, Kevin Costner played before us. "
Television
Us
See
" I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly. "
Good
You
Funny
" I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. "
Love
Time
Family
" My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to. "
Day
Best
Family
" My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me. "
Me
Wife
Run
" Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there. "
Funny
Right
Now
" Some people grab my hair and pull it out. People write on my jeans when I'm on stage. They write on my boots - their phone number, name or whatever. "
People
Name
Some People
" The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions. "
Football
Winning
Live
" There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal. "
Me
Meeting
Mom
" There's an intelligent redneck in all of us somewhere. "
Somewhere
Us
Intelligent
" There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy. "
Easy
Special
Me
" The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls. "
Love
Music
Way
" When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation. "
Girl
Start
Mom
" Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs lightly and trying to make sure I've got consistency. "
Through
Why
Think
" With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it. "
Better
You
Understand
" You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing. "
Road
Know
I Am
" You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner. "
Good
Be Happy
You
" You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting. "
Experience
Silence
Love
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