Quotes from Cole Swindell

I graduated with about 23 people, so if you were the least bit athletic, you kind of had to play everything. So I played baseball, basketball, football, ran track, and played golf.

I've had the chance to meet families with children who are sick, and it's heartbreaking.

Whether it's a show or an interview, the way I look at it is that one day people might not want to interview me. So I want to enjoy this ride while I can.

Even though I lost my dad in just a tragic, sudden way, there are so many more stories that are so much worse.

I was the kid jamming out to the songs on the radio, and now there's hopefully kids out there jamming out to my music.

I've always wanted to treat people the way I want to be treated.

I want people to know that I'm not just 'Chillin' It.' I'm a real person. There's heartbreak and trials, and I hope I put that in my music.

Just being from where I'm from, a little small town, I feel like I'm a good judge of character.

I know that a lot of our troops like country music. I would love to do anything I could to just help them out.

Every year since we got started, I think that it's going to get harder to top it, but with all the support, somehow things keep getting better. That must mean we are doing something right, so we're just going to try to keep doing what we're doing.

When I'm getting a chance to do my job or make somebody's day, and be on stage where I love, and see all the fans having fun, you can't help but smile.

Being a big Braves fan, Turner Field would be cool to play a show at.

If an artist can take two minutes to tweet a fan and make his or her day, why wouldn't they take advantage of that?

That's why I've always loved country music. Whether it's sad, pumps you up, or it's breakup songs, it's all real-life things.

When I left college, it broke my mom's heart, but I knew I had to be in Nashville. I knew that was the place you had to be in to become a better songwriter, and that's what I wanted to move there for and to ultimately get a record deal.

I'm not the only one who has ever lost somebody; I'm not the only one who was missing somebody. That's what I love about country music, that's what I love about songwriters, is being able to put out those words, those feelings.

I'm a Georgia Southern boy.

Georgia Southern was such a big part of me getting my start.

The older I get, the more special time with family gets.

The fact that I have the chance to learn from the names I've been on tour with, I don't think you can ask for any more than that.

I wanted to get better at writing, so I knew I needed to move to Nashville.

I'm blessed to have the platform I have, and I'm going to spread the word. There's a lot of great causes, but I don't know anything that hits you harder than a child being sick. It's not fair; they don't deserve it. I'm ready to know what I can do to help.

I'm getting to do, like, 11 stadium shows with Kenny Chesney... seriously - that's bucket list.

I've always been a huge Eric Church fan. I'll never forget being in college listening to his first album and how much it inspired to write my own music.