It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.

I had an AM radio and listened to Al Green, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder, Charley Pride and Cheap Trick - sometimes in the same hour on the same station!

Golf is the greatest but most maddening sport there is.

Romantic stuff is not something I really remember.

Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.

The thing that really gets me about the game is I've never played two rounds that were anywhere close to being the same - ever. Even with the same golf course and setup, nothing is ever the same. I love that about golf.

I believe that one of the reasons I get to play golf all over the world is because of the barriers that Lee Elder broke down. I just think he's amazing.

Arnold Palmer is my favorite, just getting to know him and all of the film on him and his game. He was the first real superstar in golf. You had Bobby Jones and all of those guys, but Arnold Palmer was bigger than life.

It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

I work hard to let my wife know how much I love her. I try to do that every day.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

My family lives a pretty normal life.

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

I'm always up at 7:30, usually earlier. Having three kids will do that.

If my music career was my golf game, I'd be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.

There's nothing like sitting and watching the Masters on TV.