Every time I make a record, it's make-or-break time. I hope I always have that mentality - that's what keeps me fired up.

There are so many people who would like to see me not make it in Nashville. But that's good motivation.

I love Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my top five records.

I pay almost no attention to the charts.

People go, 'Oh, you're another guy who crossed over to country.' I say, name another one. Name one other pop singer who's done what I've done as a country singer. There isn't one.

I think the people who are sitting in their living room doing those, 'Let's take country music back' blogs and all that stuff, that's crazy to me. No one's saying that about rock & roll, and no one sounded like the Beatles since 1960. No one says that about R&B, and no one sounded like the Commodores since 1970.

I'm a big Black Crowes guy. I think they are one of America's greatest rock & roll bands ever.

Everything that I do on stage comes from seeing the Black Crowes in '95 in Charlotte. For 'Let Her Cry,' I was just trying to write 'She Talks to Angels.'

Billy Graham isn't about politics - Billy Graham is about God.

I'd work with Charles Kelley anytime. I'd go do a 'Pancho and Lefty' record with Charles. He is class, man.

I've always listened to country music. I wanted Hootie to become a country band at first, but I was outvoted.

People looked at me as a carpetbagger coming over from pop to country. But it helped because it got me in the room.

If I did a show and didn't do Hootie songs, I would be ripping people off.

I think I made records, since early on, that people wanted to listen to.

There's a lot of stuff I thought I'd do in the world, but I never thought I'd have a street named after me in my hometown. It's a great feeling.

My kids don't care about anything. I'm just Dad to them. They don't get excited about anything.

I've gotten to play so many of the great courses around the country and overseas. Sometimes it pays to be the golf guy. People always want to take me to the golf course. I love it.

I'm such a lover of golf, and I've been at the Masters a couple times, and I've been so blessed to get to play there.

It's hokey, but I love sitting in an inner tube and taking it easy on a lazy river ride. I can sit there all day.

Music education was always big for me. Ever since I was a young kid, I always said it was the reason I went to school sometimes and knowing if I didn't do well in class that my mom wasn't gonna let me sing in school or sing at that concert.

For me, the Mount Rushmore of greats would be Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Hulk Hogan, Bruno Sammartino or Lou Thesz. You can do either one of them in that fourth spot. But I think Ric Flair is the greatest of all time. He's the greatest I've ever seen... on the mic and in the ring.

I was an 8-year-old who loved wrestling and watched it religiously every Saturday at one o'clock.

I've got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is the robe. I actually have a Ric Flair robe with 'the Nature Boy' on the back. That's awesome. When I look at it, it brings back so many memories of my childhood and my teen years.

Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He's an icon.