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Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.
I wasn't a great student, C average. I was pretty shy, but I drank a lot of beer.
Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks.
It's tough enough to have a relationship, and it hurts enough to have it not work.
I hate my smile. I always have, even in my school pictures when I was a little kid.
I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.
Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.
I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.
My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.
had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.
My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.
I've been focused for a long time. I've given my life to do music. I've sacrificed everything.
I don't really lose my temper that much, but when somebody mistreats my guys, I just go crazy.
I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.
I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.
One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.
I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.
When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy.
I hate album covers where people are just smiling so big. It's like a neon sign that says PLEASE COME BUY ME.
In 1994 I bought my first tour bus. I still own it and believe it or not it's still out on the road on my tour.
There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.
I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.
One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me.
I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.
My fans get enough politics on TV every day. I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them to listen to me.
I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point.
Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.
So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.
What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide
Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.
The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.
I can stay on my boat for a few weeks if I have a guitar and a girl and a Bob Marley CD. After that, I've got to move around.
Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song.
I'm what I am and I'm what I'm not. And I'm sure happy with what I've got. I live to love and laugh a lot. And that's all I need.
Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun.
I don't really drink before a show. That's my only drinking rule. Especially with today's cell-phone cameras, there's no win to it.
I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.
I have never said a negative thing about anybody, even when the whole world was saying I was gay because Renée Zellweger cited fraud.
I think it is possible to be friends with employees, but there has to be a respect level where you're not taken advantage of, either.
I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.
I'm dating a girl who's pretty levelheaded. She's a nurse. She's a real, normal girl. Which is what I need because my life isn't normal.
When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.
Her little ring is a little thing, but its all I could afford Now she's mine, all mine till the day I die, and I never wanted nothin' more
I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.
When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me
There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.
I'm glad I took that time to work really hard on the music. I feel the effects of that now in a positive way with my connection with the audience.
My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn't know me.
There were [in 21] all those times in my life that I didn't know this was going to happen. I didn't know if anybody was going to care about our music.
I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.