When I started playing music at East Tennessee State University I would sit on a stool with a tip jar in front of me and play four hours a night at a….

I think people need to live their lives the way they want to, but I'm pretty confident in the fact that I love girls. I've got a long line of girls w….

One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I start….

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists..

Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down..

I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot..

It's very hard for me to relax..

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.

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone..

I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid….

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..

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..

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not..

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person..

I wasn't a great student, C average. I was pretty shy, but I drank a lot of beer..

It's funny to see my friends going through that middle-age thing about losing their hair. I went through it in college. They all say, "Oh my God, I'm….

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter..

I have friends who have a normal family, kids and a dog, and I think I would blow my brains out. It's fine for them. But I'm such a free spirit, I fe….

Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports..

had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young..

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don'….