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" Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you. "

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" I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people. "

" I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut. "

" All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life. "

" I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them. "

" I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks. "

" No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different. "

" In advertising, you have a small window to say the most you can. That's what songwriting is. The difference is, you get to put the leaves on the trees and colour 'em in. "

" I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that. "

" What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song. "

" I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess. "

" I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue. "

" I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies. "

" Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid! "

" I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not. "

" Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got. "

" I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music. "

" I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go. "

" True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt. "

" I just love to see people having a good time. "

Having A Good Time

" My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan. "

" Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life. "

" If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also. "

" I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music. "

" I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write. "

" I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here. "

" I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation. "

" I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.' "

" People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something. "

" You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can. "