“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.
ALAN JACKSONIf 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 have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars.
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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That’s what makes you so nervous.
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The music business doesn’t take up that much of my time.
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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’ve been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants.
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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.
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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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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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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue
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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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Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
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If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
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