I’ve had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
ALAN JACKSONI’ve had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
ALAN JACKSONBut most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
ALAN JACKSONI don’t write all my stuff.
ALAN JACKSONYou think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy.
ALAN JACKSONI’ve always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you’ve got to have a tour to support that.
ALAN JACKSONIf you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
ALAN JACKSONThey’re just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It’s that way everywhere.
ALAN JACKSONAs long as I’m still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets,
ALAN JACKSONYou have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.
ALAN JACKSONI’ve always stood up for country music.
ALAN JACKSONIt’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
ALAN JACKSONIt was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
ALAN JACKSONMy mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
ALAN JACKSONI 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.
ALAN JACKSONI 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.
ALAN JACKSONEverybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
ALAN JACKSON