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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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'm not a trust-fund type. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Bob Seger was a huge inspiration. "

" I don't care if I starve. "

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

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

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

" I have a huge chip on my shoulder. "