It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.

The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm a helluva kisser.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.

I work hard but I play hard.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

I've always been drawn to the ocean.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I want to spend more time with my family.

Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back

I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

I'm pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women.

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

It's very hard for me to relax.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

My fans reflect who I am.