I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.
I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.
They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.
Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.
My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.
I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.
Basketball was my whole life until I was 20 years old. All I knew was basketball. Then came golf, and I thought that's all I wanted to do then.
You can't live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you've got to do things in the way that you want to do them.
The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to say or what to sing.
I remember watching films in my teenage years, and you'd be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, and then a song would come on. You'd love that song forever; it changed your life.
You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.
I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.
My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.
Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.
I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
