If there's one thing special about me, it's that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door.

Raffles are no fun.

I never really saw myself doing a Super Bowl promo.

I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.

I love Cee Lo, but I avoid him when he's holding that smelly cat.

For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.

I've spent a lifetime in love with country music.

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.

I've never played it safe on my own music.

What I do is what I like; if I'm not as famous as I'd like to be, I've done it to myself.

My fans are the best; I love hanging with them.

Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.

As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.

I don't give a crap about clowns.

Even if it's your wedding, if you're a guy, it's boring.

I do know a good singer when I hear one.

I totally remove myself from any costumes, wardrobe, any choreography. I could care less about that stuff.

My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.

The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.

The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve.

I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'

I don't ask other artists for too much advice.

One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.

Maroon 5 are worldwide stars.

I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.

The Grand Ole Opry is an artist, and I am proud to be one of its songs.

I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes.

I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.

I probably have the crappiest tattoo - not only in country music - but maybe the world.

I hate reality shows. But if I had to be on one, I'd have to say 'Realtree Road Trips' on the Outdoor Channel.

No, I don't think I'm ever going to get serious.

One of my all-time favorite country singers is a guy named Conway Twitty.

I've burned the trash a few times and it got away from me. I've caught the yard on fire. I've burnt up some acreage and had to call the fire department a couple of times.

The only thing you can do to make catfish edible is fry them.

When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

I'm not too big on cats, and sometimes I'll say something like that, and people get so mad at me. But the truth is, I don't care if they get mad.

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God's sake. I cook what I like to eat.

I like bubble baths.

There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.

I love getting the pontoon boat out, and I don't get to do it as much anymore. If I know in two weeks or a month from now I've got three days off, I can start planning for that stuff, getting out there with friends and family and relaxing, just floating around and hanging out.

I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother.'

I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar.

Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

Nobody's gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.

Cee Lo is the coolest human being I have ever met in my life.

One thing that you can't fake is chemistry.