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... I like the clubs because ... we have two or three acoustic guitars up there and we're not hard-core slamming or stomping through the music. We're singing it with intricate harmonies and really showing the craftsmanship.

I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the kind of music that country executives want. Rappers are like that too .. my words come from the street, and their words come from the street. That slicked-up pop stuff doesn't come from the street, it's all pre-fab.

Where did I surrender, can you tell me how and when. I'm the one who's always in control. Leading with my heart like there is nothing to defend as I lay it all out on the line body and soul. I've never let another in so soon.

Burning up the phone until there's nothing left to say, so I lay here and just listen to you breathe. Girl you know it's only been a week since our first date-back when you were just a stranger to me. I've never let another in so soon.

And yet this is farther than I've ever fell; You know me much too well. Funny it don't feel like we just met. It didn't take much time. Forever's more than crossed my mind, and we haven't even said 'I love you' yet.

You've got my heart in unfamiliar territory. It's never been out here on my sleeve. But here tonight with you it's quite a different story. You bring out a side of me no one has ever seen.

My mind is cautious but my heart is in a hurry.

I'm as strong, strong as I can be, but ooh ooh ooh, baby you leave me weak.

There's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat.

Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops

Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.

This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage_x000D_And you'll be sorry that you messed with_x000D_The U.S. of A._x000D_'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass_x000D_It's the American way.

American Girls and American Guys_x000D__x000D_We'll always stand up and salute_x000D__x000D_We'll always recognize_x000D__x000D_When we see Old Glory Flying_x000D__x000D_There's a lot of men dead_x000D__x000D_So we can sleep in peace at night_x000D__x000D_When we lay down our head.

I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.