I think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
ALAN JACKSONbecause there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
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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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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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It 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.
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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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As long as I’m still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets,
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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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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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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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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I’m usually just enjoying life.
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A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
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I’ve always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you’ve got to have a tour to support that.
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I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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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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