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To have John Mellencamp compliment my songwriting? That was unreal.

When you hear people scream because they're about to hear a song that has been a part of their life, there's nothing like that.

I'm not a studio rat. I do find sitting around playing the same song 12 times kind of tedious. I like to get in and get out.

I love making music, and I love touring. I love that I get to wake up and play music. I don't like being away from my wife and kids.

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 love jam bands, but I still like a three-and-a-half-minute rock song.

You're always proud that people still want to hear what you're doing.

I live for the NFL. I watch so much of it.

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.

One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.

I think the people who are sitting in their living room doing those, 'Let's take country music back' blogs and all that stuff, that's crazy to me. No one's saying that about rock & roll, and no one sounded like the Beatles since 1960. No one says that about R&B, and no one sounded like the Commodores since 1970.

I've always listened to country music. I wanted Hootie to become a country band at first, but I was outvoted.

You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn't do that, I wouldn't put it out.

My kids don't care about anything. I'm just Dad to them. They don't get excited about anything.

I'm such a lover of golf, and I've been at the Masters a couple times, and I've been so blessed to get to play there.

School was very important to me ,and music was what kept me coming back.

I was an 8-year-old who loved wrestling and watched it religiously every Saturday at one o'clock.

Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He's an icon.

Country music's so about the nuclear family and living the southern lifestyle and everything.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.