- It seems that with other kind of music, they are looking for the next big thing, but with country music, they might be looking for that, but they also want to have that warm blanket that helped them through that relationship or that singer they have always loved.
- I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.
- We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
- We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.
- I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.
- Music education was always big for me. Ever since I was a young kid, I always said it was the reason I went to school sometimes and knowing if I didn't do well in class that my mom wasn't gonna let me sing in school or sing at that concert.
- It's hokey, but I love sitting in an inner tube and taking it easy on a lazy river ride. I can sit there all day.
- I was an 8-year-old who loved wrestling and watched it religiously every Saturday at one o'clock.
- For me, the Mount Rushmore of greats would be Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Hulk Hogan, Bruno Sammartino or Lou Thesz. You can do either one of them in that fourth spot. But I think Ric Flair is the greatest of all time. He's the greatest I've ever seen... on the mic and in the ring.
- School was very important to me ,and music was what kept me coming back.
- I live for the NFL. I watch so much of it.
- We work so hard to stay true to country music. People can say they don't like it, but they can't say it's not country.
- I think I could take a job as an NFL scout.
- No doubt about it, country is a much more family-friendly business than pop.
- I played every position, from right tackle to quarterback and everything in between.
- I'm always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.
- With 'Wagon Wheel,' I loved the visual it painted, and it's a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.
- At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.
- I love Christmas. I love the music... I love everything about Christmas. I'm a big fan.
- I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks To Angels,' those lyrics did something to me.
- The first year I started liking the Dolphins was Super Bowl VI, which they lost to the Cowboys. I was 5. My whole family was pulling for the Cowboys, so I rooted for the Dolphins. They lost, and I cried.
- Great music will always rise to the top if you give it a chance.
- I got turned onto the 'Pat Garrett' soundtrack when I worked retail back in the day.
- I used to love watching 'Hee Haw' on TV when I was a kid. My brothers and sisters weren't happy about it, but I just loved the music.
- When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
- Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.
- I've been a Robert Randolph fan forever, since 2001. I just thought he was so cool; you don't see a black kid playing the slide the way he plays. No one plays like Robert.
- For me, '52nd Street' is quintessential Billy Joel. I bought that record as a kid and listened to it so much.
- I plan to make records as long as people wanna keep listening to them.
- We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.
- I'm going to make country records back to back for a while - until country radio doesn't want me anymore or until I get my own theater in Branson - one of the two.
- My kids don't care about anything. I'm just Dad to them. They don't get excited about anything.
- It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
- Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.
- I'm going to do whatever I want as long as it's country. I mean, I'm not much on naysayers, so I'll just do whatever. If I like it, I'll do it.
- One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song.
- It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.
- With rock, you can write about anything. There are rock songs I still don't know what they're singing about, but you want to get up and dance.
- One of the great reasons to be in Nashville is, you get guys like Shane McAnally to write songs with.
- I work hard to let my wife know how much I love her. I try to do that every day.
- Golf is the greatest but most maddening sport there is.
- When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing a character was very similar. It was high energy, and I had to really think about the emotion of what was going on in the scene.
- I'm always up at 7:30, usually earlier. Having three kids will do that.
- I'd be lying to say I've not experienced a lot of racism in my life; it's very much alive. I don't let it bother me. I couldn't be the singer I am if I didn't let it go.
- That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.
- The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.
- As a kid, I was big into Al Green, Gladys Knight and the Pips, but as I got older, I started listening to all sorts of music, including country.
- A lot of times, I don't want to listen to my stuff, because I'm thinking maybe I didn't do my best.
- I've always listened to country music. I wanted Hootie to become a country band at first, but I was outvoted.
- I've played golf since I was fourteen. I like how no two rounds are ever the same. And I get to be out in nature... and hang out with my buddies.
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