But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
ALAN JACKSONIf anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
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“After 17” is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that’s kind of where I’m at in that part of my life.
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I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I’ve gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
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I 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.
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I’m usually just enjoying life.
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You just write about things that happen.
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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 always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They’re really not.
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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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A country song is a song about life.
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I 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.
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My mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
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The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don’t need, what wears you out and what’s important.
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There’s no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.
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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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