If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you’d say, “Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,” but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn’t apply to anybody that has a child.
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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.
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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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Tonight I’m the designated drinker.
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Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I’ve ever had has been about 50-50 songs I’ve written or co-written and other people’s songs.
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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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Just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it’s going to take to get you on the radio.
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They’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.
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I think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
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Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..
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