Quotes from Eric Church

I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama.

I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

I'd still stand in line all day to get into an AC/DC show, because that was the one show when I was younger that kind of changed my life. Because it was a little wrong. I think I was 14 or 15, first concert without the parents, you know, and they were all worried because we were going to an AC/DC show, and it was an amphitheater.

There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who are some of the best players I've ever heard but are playing on their porch tonight because they've never chased success. There's simplicity to how they live and what they care about.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

I'm not a trust-fund type.

I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care.

Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.

The stigma with country is it's not cool. That's wrong. Country is very cool. I look at award shows, I look at how country is represented. Country is represented with an asterisk. We have to perform collaborations. We have to perform a tribute. We can't perform by ourselves.

When I'm cutting a tree, if I'm thinking about anything other than that 40-foot oak tree... I'm a dead man. It's a therapy thing for me.

If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

Country music is the song that speaks to the American condition. It's middle America. Eight out of 10 people. Maybe it's not the No. 1 choice, but they listen to country.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

I grew up listening to The Band. I love Lowell George. I love Little Feat, and I was listening to some Springsteen, some of the deep album cuts. I just like the looseness of that kind of music. It all feels like they did it in one take. They let whatever happened happen. If it felt good, they kept it.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.

Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level.

I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented.