If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.

I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music.

I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

Awards are for young people. They just are.

There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.

I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.

The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums?

In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.

If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.

The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.

My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.

I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.