I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.

You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.

Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'

You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

I try to do my best.

You know 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.

We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.

Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Awards are for young people. They just are.

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.

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

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.

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

If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.