There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna stick with country until I ride off in the sunset.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Ice Cube is doing so great. He went from being this hardcore gangster rapper to this actor now. He's doing children's movies and all this stuff - he's rocking it.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.

I plan to make records as long as people wanna keep listening to them.

You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn't do that, I wouldn't put it out.

Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

I got turned onto the 'Pat Garrett' soundtrack when I worked retail back in the day.

I used to love watching 'Hee Haw' on TV when I was a kid. My brothers and sisters weren't happy about it, but I just loved the music.

With 'Wagon Wheel,' I loved the visual it painted, and it's a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

I've known Tiger since he was 18. Tiger is a great guy. I am so happy for him right now.

School was very important to me ,and music was what kept me coming back.

The worst thing for me when I go to a concert is a whole bunch of ballads. You get bored.

There's nothing like sitting and watching the Masters on TV.

If my music career was my golf game, I'd be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.

I'm always up at 7:30, usually earlier. Having three kids will do that.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.

We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

My family lives a pretty normal life.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

I work hard to let my wife know how much I love her. I try to do that every day.

It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

Arnold Palmer is my favorite, just getting to know him and all of the film on him and his game. He was the first real superstar in golf. You had Bobby Jones and all of those guys, but Arnold Palmer was bigger than life.

I believe that one of the reasons I get to play golf all over the world is because of the barriers that Lee Elder broke down. I just think he's amazing.

The thing that really gets me about the game is I've never played two rounds that were anywhere close to being the same - ever. Even with the same golf course and setup, nothing is ever the same. I love that about golf.

Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.

Romantic stuff is not something I really remember.

Golf is the greatest but most maddening sport there is.

I had an AM radio and listened to Al Green, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder, Charley Pride and Cheap Trick - sometimes in the same hour on the same station!

It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.

Whether you are on stage or playing golf, all it takes is one person to throw everything off.

If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy when I was a kid - his music and 'Hee Haw' made me perk my ears up and made me say, 'What is this? I want to hear more of that.' He was that catalyst for me to start this whole run in country music.

It seems that with other kind of music, they are looking for the next big thing, but with country music, they might be looking for that, but they also want to have that warm blanket that helped them through that relationship or that singer they have always loved.

When you're doing a Motley Crue tribute record, you can ask anyone to do it, and they're not going to say no.

I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks To Angels,' those lyrics did something to me.

What I love about each album is the opportunity to expand on what we've done in the past - to push myself and the band creatively, vocally, and lyrically.

At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.

I'm always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.