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" I've always made music that was representative of real life. "
Eric Church
Real
Real Life
Always
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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
Unique
" 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. "
Eric Church
How
Country
Look
" I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging. "
Eric Church
New
Hobby
Much
" Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career. "
Eric Church
Kid
Always
Competitive
" 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. "
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Know
Think
Life
" 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. "
Eric Church
Nature
Simplicity
Success
" 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. "
Eric Church
Bus
Now
Love
" Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level. "
Eric Church
Universal
Deepest
Music
" 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
Me
" Bob Seger was a huge inspiration. "
Eric Church
Bob
Inspiration
Huge
" 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! "
Eric Church
Trying
Time
Saying
" 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
Me
Focus
Care
" My favorite thing is to go out in the arenas, like, an hour before doors, and run the concourse. And you get that anticipation. You smell the popcorn. You see the people tapping the kegs. And nobody is in there yet but you, but you feel it. It's my favorite thing on tour. "
Eric Church
Nobody
Doors
Feel
" 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. "
Eric Church
People
World
Think
" I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama. "
Eric Church
Am
Blessed
Thankful
" 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
Me
Music
" 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
Me
Tree
" 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. "
Eric Church
Think
Sometimes
Television
" 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. "
Eric Church
Situation
Time
Thought
" 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. "
Eric Church
Finding
Unique
Matter
" 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. "
Eric Church
Lost
Country
Too
" 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. "
Eric Church
Band
Music
Love
" I'm not an early riser; I'm a crack-of-noon guy. "
Eric Church
Guy
Early
" I'm not a trust-fund type. "
Eric Church
Type
" I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream. "
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Being
Keep
I Can
" 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. "
Eric Church
Earth
Sun
Love
" 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. "
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Made
Ticket
Want
" I want to be the guy out there on the edge. "
Eric Church
Out
Want
Guy
" As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am. "
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Comfortable
Far
I Am
" I can't stand making records. "
Eric Church
Making
Stand
Records