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" Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written. "
Luke Bryan
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" My thing is, when you put a bunch of rules on a tour, you have to hire three more people to enforce all the rules. So, with me, I want everyone to feel comfortable. It's a lot of little moving parts out here, and little hiccups will come. At the end of the day, the show's going to go on, and I want everybody to truly enjoy it. "
Luke Bryan
Enjoy
People
Me
" When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage. "
Luke Bryan
People
Moment
Sleep
" I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can't happen until you make that move. "
Luke Bryan
Step
Moment
Day
" I hope someone thinks I sing good. I'm always working hard to sing better. I sound the way I sound, but I can always be better. I work hard at singing and being a better recording artist. "
Luke Bryan
Hope
Good
Work Hard
" Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something. "
Luke Bryan
Learning
Myself
Writing
" I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time and we were at the lake every weekend and going to the beach and living a good life. It's been the way we always lived, and my wife's the same way - enjoy every day and have fun. "
Luke Bryan
Family
Day
Wife
" I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life. "
Luke Bryan
I Am
Life
College
" My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young. "
Luke Bryan
Feel
Music
Young
" I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song. "
Luke Bryan
New Things
You
Song
" You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it. "
Luke Bryan
Business
Sexy
Women
" My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it. "
Luke Bryan
Me
Fishing
Hunting
" We're putting on a show, and if I'm dancing and having fun, you can take a shot of the crowd, and they've got smiles glued to their faces. "
Luke Bryan
Smiles
Having Fun
Fun
" Our crew guys, it's amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night. "
Luke Bryan
Amazing
Show
Night
" To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers crossed, and hopefully we'll have many more, but there's certainly nothing like the first one. "
Luke Bryan
More
Nothing
Now
" I want to be comfortable on TV. If I'm comfortable, they're comfortable watching me. I think nothing's more icky than watching icky on TV. "
Luke Bryan
Nothing
Me
Comfortable
" You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out. "
Luke Bryan
Night
Never
Always
" Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest. "
Luke Bryan
Chest
Anthem
Heart
" If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess. "
Luke Bryan
Having Fun
Music
People
" I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head. "
Luke Bryan
Keep
Anymore
Road
" I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success came easy - it was all hard work for them, and you have to buckle down and get ready for the hard work yourself, too. "
Luke Bryan
Work
Success
Hard Work
" I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing. "
Luke Bryan
Trying
Life
Kind
" Anytime you have a fellow artist say, 'Loving the new Luke Bryan album,' that's awesome. "
Luke Bryan
Say
You
Artist
" American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood. "
Luke Bryan
Allowed
Us
Idol
" When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need. "
Luke Bryan
Management
People
Writing
" I don't give any merit to criticism. 'Country Girls (Shake it for Me),' I can see where people view that as sexist, but I just view that as having fun. "
Luke Bryan
View
Fun
Having Fun
" I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me. "
Luke Bryan
Relationship
Me
Personal
" When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show. "
Luke Bryan
People
Say
Night
" I'll never forget when me and Jason Matthews wrote the line, 'Don't be a tape player hater,' in 'Country Man,' I don't think I ever laughed harder. We didn't know where we were gonna put that in a song, but we knew we had to make it into a song. I just remember laughing and being so proud of such a goofy little line. "
Luke Bryan
Think
Man
Me
" Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household. "
Luke Bryan
Rain
Good
Growing Up
" You know, if Kelly Clarkson wants to do country albums because that's what inspires her, then let her do it. Look at Kanye West or Ludacris... they aren't rappin' and cussin' like they were on their first few albums, so what does that make them? It's all in the eye of the beholder and the listener. We all use our outlet to grow ourself. "
Luke Bryan
Eye
Know
Look