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" As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am. "

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" 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. "

" 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! "

" When we go out there, I want to be the act that, no matter who's in that crowd, they've never seen a better act than me. I'm gonna empty the tank. "

" I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging. "

" There are some commercial artists that have number one after number one, and you go to their show, and the show's one-note. Yeah, they're all hit songs. But there's no emotion, because they're the same kind of hit songs, because they're what works at radio. That kills live shows for me. "

" When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record. "

" I have a huge chip on my shoulder. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life. "

" I've always made music that was representative of real life. "

" Looking back on my career, some of the hardest times - eight people at a show, 12 people on a bus - were some of the most fun. "

" The stigma with country is it's not cool. That's wrong. Country is very cool. I look at award shows, I look at how country is represented. Country is represented with an asterisk. We have to perform collaborations. We have to perform a tribute. We can't perform by ourselves. "

" 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. "

" I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice. "

" There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who are some of the best players I've ever heard but are playing on their porch tonight because they've never chased success. There's simplicity to how they live and what they care about. "

" I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me. "

" Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career. "

" 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. "

" I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream. "

" Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along. "

" I can't stand making records. "

" Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level. "

" I really love pizza after midnight. "

" I'm not an early riser; I'm a crack-of-noon guy. "

" Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake. "

" I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented. "

" I'm not a trust-fund type. "

" 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. "

" Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice. "