Occupation: Singer Birth: October 17, 1958
There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children..
Oklahoma's always been good to me..
I'm usually just enjoying life..
The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important..
If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years..
To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever..
Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it's wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight..
I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young..
You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I'….
I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And rad….
If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff every….
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family pla….
What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old car….
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words a….
I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. ….
"After 17" is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that so….
Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love.
A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something th….
If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home..
Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere..
I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like..