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I defuse everything I can with it. Humor is such a great shield.

I don't like being surrounded by yes men.

I don't want to do risky. I want to do important. And lovable. Important and lovable.

You're going to get flak if you tell the wrong joke, but it's still the wrong joke. Give the wrong speech, you take it on the chin.

I've been ripping the Rolling Stones off with every song I write in some form or another.

Everybody goes through a period where you're fighting a lot, I think. Sometimes that can be a good thing for your relationship. That conflict can lead to making up.

Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm not.

It's rare that you're sure you're right in life. I'm finding that.

We learned that whether or not you support the war, you honor the soldiers that fight.

I don't feel like I have a legacy.

I don't think I'm influencing younger artists - they're not trying to be me. But I don't say that in bitterness. I say that with realism.

I don't think I've changed anything in the country format whatsoever. But I'm not worried about it. I've found my place in it.

I'm the smart aleck. The class clown. I'm the guy who does the song nobody expects.

I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'

I'm done with rules that are there just to be rules.

The hardest part about writing any song is, what do you write? And how do I rewrite things? You start to run out of ideas that feel fresh.

I'm a country musician. I know how to play jazz, and I can play rock. But I've had to fight my entire career to get a little respect from people who don't understand where I come from.

I'm not comfortable doing a covers album.

No one needs to recut 'He Stopped Loving Her Today.'

My first tweet was at the CMT Awards when I won an award and typed, 'Thank you.' Then I was hooked because the followers started multiplying. It's a great tool.

I don't like to look back. I love the next challenge and don't keep awards. There are a few that are really important, but my parents have most of them.

If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren't focused enough on the road in front of you.

I'm not answering questions with my songs.

I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

The truth is, I mostly thought about 'Accidental Racist' in terms of my fans. This song was meant to generate discussion among the people who listen to my albums. What I was most worried about is that my fan base would think that I was preaching to them.

The last thing I ever want to do is be preachy.

I'm of the mindset that God loves everyone.

I don't want to be hurtful to anyone.

I don't talk about the people I vote for.

You shouldn't listen to my music for political messages.

Here's the problem with talking about who I voted for. If I say I voted for Romney, then everybody's like, 'Of course.' If I say I voted for Obama, everybody's like, 'Of course.' And then I'm no longer the guy you can't figure out.

I still consider myself working in Nashville. I visit Hollywood.

I don't think you can get everything based on who you know, but you can't get anything until you do know the right people.

My home town was really great to me. If you've ever watched 'The Andy Griffith Show,' it's like Mayberry.

I can't play a solo without thinking about John Jorgenson. I always think about what he would do.

I like comedy.

I love the Smothers Brothers.

The only reason I wound up in Nashville and went to Belmont University is because that's where I needed to be.

Anytime you're in West Virginia or near it, and you sing, 'Take Me Home, Country Roads,' it's a sight to behold.

I can draw really well.

I've always been able to laugh at myself.

I consider myself a bit of a comedian. I write a lot of humorous songs.

I do standup once a year, when I host the CMAs.

We're trying to do the thing you don't expect out of country music. Which is to say, 'Go see the world.'

Some of the worst selfies I've ever seen are at Auschwitz or Ground Zero.

I still cherish relationships that I made early on as much as anything in my life.

By no means do I try to go out and hang out with famous people.

I'm somebody who likes to gravitate toward people who aren't necessarily famous.

If a little kid picks up Guitar Hero and learns 'Smoke On The Water,' he soon finds out that if he wants the chicks to look at him, he'd better learn it on the guitar!

I had an old, red-covered '63 AC30 - one of the best AC30s I've ever heard. I cut the whole of the first record with it.

The late-sixties Teles are the best value you can get for a vintage guitar.

I like it when two sounds complement each other but are way different on a record.

If somebody says, 'Do you remember the first time you heard a Rolling Stones song?' if you say you do, you're crazy. You've just always heard them. You might remember the first time it impacted you, but the first time you heard one, you were in a cradle.

I'm sick of feeling like we're in a decline. Let's look at the good.

I live in the extremes.

You're a sitting duck in a mall if you're a celebrity. It's like that scene from 'Guarding Tess,' I think it is, where Shirley MacLaine goes to the mall just to feel good about her celebrity.

When you're with somebody as iconic as Mick Jagger or John Fogerty, I'm really aware that, in asking these guys to collaborate with me, I don't want to add a footnote to their career that's like, 'Shouldn't' have done that.' It's important to make sure that they're well represented.

Surprise is important. I think that's the essence of entertainment, really.

Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

I listen to the same things that a lot of my fans do, and I grew up in much the same way they're growing up.

I like Katy Perry. I like Kesha.

I really like Ed Sheeran.

A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there.

At certain times, your career should be a party.

When you hear a banjo through stutter edit, it's the coolest thing you ever heard.

There are phrases that are totally cliche that we, as songwriters, owe it to ourselves to not use again.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

I've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock.

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.

I've been on the road I think probably three years.

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

With my guys and with the way that we live out there, we work out a lot and try to eat right, but we try to basically keep it our own rhythm and our own world.

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times.

If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

My life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two.

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.

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