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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I have a huge chip on my shoulder. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Bob Seger was a huge inspiration. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I want to be the guy out there on the edge. "

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

" 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. "