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" 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. "

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

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Experience

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" To me, the most powerful people in this country, politically, are mayors. If you took all the mayors of the 25 biggest cities and you got them together, you could do more on that level than you ever could through the bureaucracy in Washington. "

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

" 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. "

Eric Church

College

Music

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

Eric Church

Every Day

Writing

" I would be on the 'anti-reality' show. I can't stand reality TV. I can tell you one that I absolutely would not be on, and that's 'Dancing With the Stars.' If you ever see me on that show, just please understand my family is starving to death, and things are really bad in the Church household. "

Eric Church

Family

Death

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

Eric Church

Guy

Early

" When I'm cutting a tree, if I'm thinking about anything other than that 40-foot oak tree... I'm a dead man. It's a therapy thing for me. "

Eric Church

Dead

Tree

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

" 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. "

Eric Church

Emotion

Kind

" The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you. "

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

" Bob Seger was a huge inspiration. "

" 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. "

Eric Church

Focus

Care

" Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them. "

Eric Church

Just

People

" Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home. "

" With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it's common sense when you're raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older. "

" I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama. "

Eric Church

Blessed

Thankful

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" I have a huge chip on my shoulder. "

" 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. "

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

" I really love pizza after midnight. "

" 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 most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity. "

" The Wall Street Dow Jones up and down thing that's moving when the stock market's open? That thing freaks me out. It's up, it's down, it's just maddening to me. I guess I'm such a super-focused kind of person that I get distracted really easy. I'll watch that thing, and it's like I'm losing money, I'm getting money. It's just crazy. "

Eric Church

Easy

Money

" The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture. "

" 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. "

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