I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

I love singin' in the car, it just makes me feel good.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

It's so surreal being here.

What makes me unique is that, I'm normal.

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

I don't want to put anyone down, but you won't see any twerking from me.

You gotta *be* country music - you can't just sing it.

My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.

Be that as it may, I think someday you'll meet a man worth giving up your independence for.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

There’s no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.