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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I can't stand making records. "

" 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. "

" When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record. "

" Bob Seger was a huge inspiration. "

" I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice. "

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

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

" 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'm not an early riser; I'm a crack-of-noon guy. "

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

" I have a huge chip on my shoulder. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "