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" Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record. "
Frankie Ballard
People
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" I probably would have never made it through college without baseball, so I'm thankful for that. I really am proud that I got to play on that level. "
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" It sounds boring, but I'm such a guitar junkie and a gear junkie. I'm always fiddling with my stuff. It's relaxing to me... I'm always pulling my stuff apart, getting my pedal board out and fiddling with it or changing guitar strings. "
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" The best times I've ever had and the greatest lessons I've ever learned were when my feet were out over the edge of the line, and I was at risk of getting a little beat up, physically and emotionally. "
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" My biggest turn-on is a fine pair of athletic legs. A girl with a fine pair of athletic legs who is not afraid to show them off. Turn-offs? A girl who doesn't like country music is a huge turn-off, and girls who don't take care of themselves. "
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" There are a lot of country artists now that are heavily influenced by hip-hop. That's not me. I was very heavily influenced by rock & roll. "
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Me
Hip-Hop
" I've always been a strategy kind of guy. I like laying things out and having a plan. Maybe not always a plan, but an approach and a vibe. "
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" All my influences go into a pot like a big ole stew, and it tastes like all the years I spent trying to play the guitar like Stevie Ray Vaughn. It tastes like Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. And if it comes out bluesy, then so be it. "
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" I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings. "
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" Are you really into pop? Are you really into old country? Blues? If you're not honest about your influences, then things don't sound as real as they can be. They're not as sharp a cheddar cheese as they can be. And I'm trying to be the sharpest cheddar I can be. "
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Cheese
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" I see so many people living in a bubble. They want to be safe, they want their kids to be safe, and they want their friends to be safe. And I get that. That's awesome and really admirable. But life is not about who gets out the cleanest at the end, or who's the most well-preserved and healthiest. "
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Friends
Want
End
" I've always been a band guy. That's my wheelhouse. That's what I do. "
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Band
Always
Been
" Life is relationships and what we're trying to do together. And please, that's what people have been singing about forever. That's what the blues is all about - the good, the bad, the fun, all of it - that lies there in between a man and a woman. "
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Woman
Together
Life
" I've got an incredible family that I never get to see. I've missed so much. They know how much my career means to me, and they allow me to go and be the workaholic that they never get to see. They support me in that. "
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Me
" If I'm blessed enough to have financial freedom in this world, my family is the ones I owe thanks to first. "
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Family
Blessed
Enough
" Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?' "
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Doing
You
" I'd like to wrestle an alligator and fly a fighter jet. "
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Fighter
Jet
Like
" I'm a Detroit Tigers fan through and through. "
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Fan
Tigers
Detroit
" I'm the world's biggest Bob Seger fan. He's like my Elvis. "
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Like
Bob
Fan
" I don't really have any hobbies. "
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Any
Hobbies
" I like going to the movies by myself. I love going late at night when there's barely anyone in the theater. It's very relaxing. "
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Late
Like
" I've never been a morning person, ever. I hate the morning. I have more energy at night. "
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Energy
Morning
Night
" I've always expressed myself on guitar, and so I look at it as another voice that is available to say what you need to say. "
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Voice
Look
" That's what music-making is: a dialogue. "
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Dialogue
" Money definitely doesn't stress me out. I really don't care about money... I probably should a little more. "
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Money
More
Care
" I collect hotel keys. I hope to make something out of them someday. It would be cool to make a bar at my house and, like, the bar is all the hotel keys: lay them down and put glass over them. Or maybe even a coffee table. "
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Down
Coffee
Cool
" I'm a big 'Cosby Show' fan. "
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Cosby
Big
Show
" I've never felt the least bit entitled to airplay. Each spin I get means the world to me. "
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Entitled
Get
Me
" I was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, about 20 miles from Kalamazoo. I lived around there for about seven years. That community is one that I really care about. "
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Lived
Community
Care
" I started off as a bar band. We played ZZ Top, Bob Seger, Waylon Jennings, the Rolling Stones - everything and anything people wanted to hear. You're not really selling yourself back then; you're selling beer. "
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Band
People
Back
" My dad is a big Outlaw country guy - Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Waylon, Willie. He loves Elvis and turned me onto Elvis. He was always playing me stuff. He and I would sing and entertain the family. We'd have a little skit on Thanksgiving or whatever. "
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