Quotes from Darius Rucker

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

I'm such a lover of golf, and I've been at the Masters a couple times, and I've been so blessed to get to play there.

It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

If I did a show and didn't do Hootie songs, I would be ripping people off.

I think I could take a job as an NFL scout.

I'm a big Black Crowes guy. I think they are one of America's greatest rock & roll bands ever.

I've gotten to play so many of the great courses around the country and overseas. Sometimes it pays to be the golf guy. People always want to take me to the golf course. I love it.

If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy when I was a kid - his music and 'Hee Haw' made me perk my ears up and made me say, 'What is this? I want to hear more of that.' He was that catalyst for me to start this whole run in country music.

I'm used to being the only black guy. I've seriously walked onstage, looked out in the audience, 15,000 people - and I'm the only one in the place. It's no big deal. My whole career's been like that.

I'll take the kids to school after breakfast. I love doing that - love being a dad.

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna stick with country until I ride off in the sunset.

The first year I started liking the Dolphins was Super Bowl VI, which they lost to the Cowboys. I was 5. My whole family was pulling for the Cowboys, so I rooted for the Dolphins. They lost, and I cried.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

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.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.

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 plan to make records as long as people wanna keep listening to them.

You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn't do that, I wouldn't put it out.

It seems that with other kind of music, they are looking for the next big thing, but with country music, they might be looking for that, but they also want to have that warm blanket that helped them through that relationship or that singer they have always loved.

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.

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'd work with Charles Kelley anytime. I'd go do a 'Pancho and Lefty' record with Charles. He is class, man.

I pay almost no attention to the charts.