Quotes from Zac Brown

All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.

I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.

We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

When you're wearing a motorcycle helmet, people don't know who you are. So I just wander around and, yeah, it's pretty awesome.

I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well,' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.

If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.

I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.

I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.

Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.

Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything, and that's usually the people who don't ever create anything themselves.

I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get what you give.' The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.

There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.

I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.

Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.

I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.

We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.

We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.

We want to support Nashville, support the community there and be a part of it.

We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.

When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.