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" 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. "

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" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I can't stand making records. "

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

Eric Church

Guy

Early

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

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Blessed

Thankful

" 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'm not a trust-fund type. "

Eric Church

Type

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I don't care if I starve. "

Eric Church

Starve

Care

" 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. "

" My dad was in furniture for 35 years. He got run out of furniture when everything went to China, went overseas. Manufacturing in the country broke down. Everything left. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique. "

" 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