As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.

People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

My father and brothers were in the military.

It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

My retiring days are behind me - they're going to have to throw me out now.

I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

In advertising, you have a small window to say the most you can. That's what songwriting is. The difference is, you get to put the leaves on the trees and colour 'em in.

Music should always be first.

Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.

Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.

Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.