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" What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing. "

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" People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that. "

" I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it. "

" The guys have told me not to quit my day job. "

" The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. "

" Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class. "

" I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen. "

" While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then. "

" 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. "

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

" When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw. "

" One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them. "

" 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 like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation. "

" It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham. "

" 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. "

" As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy. "

" Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing. "

" Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated. "

" I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright. "

" The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game. "

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

" If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be. "

" I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future. "

" We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us. "

" 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. "

" You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is. "

" You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history. "