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" You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer. "

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" From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance. "

" I want to be comfortable on TV. If I'm comfortable, they're comfortable watching me. I think nothing's more icky than watching icky on TV. "

" It's kind of like a college degree... when you get one, no one can take it from you. When you get to say for the rest of your life that you've got a platinum album, that really means something. "

" It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you. "

" When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage. "

" A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues. "

" I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career. I understand that somewhere there's a peak and a crest for me, and I'm going to enjoy all levels. I'm going to enjoy this ride that I'm on, and when it slows down, that's when it will be time for another phase of my life. "

" 'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one. "

" Our crew guys, it's amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night. "

" If there are people out by the bus, I'll come off the bus and sign autographs, too. I always want to be accessible. I always tell my fans, 'If I ever get on the bus and don't come off, it's because I'm under the weather or I'm really tired.' "

" When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me. "

" I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them. "

" Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people. "

" Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive. "

" I try to be a good representative for country music. But as a country artist, it's important to move the needle and make a difference beyond your core audience. But you can't ever strategically try to accomplish that; then things get weird. "

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" My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young. "

" I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most. "

" I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world. "

" I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing. "

" That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business. "

" I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song. "

" I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success came easy - it was all hard work for them, and you have to buckle down and get ready for the hard work yourself, too. "

" I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, 'It ain't country anymore,' but I don't get into that whole deal. "

" You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life. "

" I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I'm a little smarter than him, maybe I'm not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals... I've just kind of got the old silly boy luck! "

" Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household. "

" I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head. "

" I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way. "

" Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written. "