I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

I really tend to write in retrospect.

Ill never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Kick your shoes off, kickem off

Little Red Riding Hood was stalked

God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.

Macho does not prove mucho.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.