American - Musician | October 17, 1958 -
You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.
Alan Jackson
StarsPeopleCrazyThinkYouAlways
Oklahoma's always been good to me.
GoodMeAlwaysOklahomaBeen
You just write about things that happen.
YouWriteHappenThingsJustAbout
It's a scary word, 'cancer.'
ScaryCancerWord
I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.
YoungNothingEverythingUpWhere
A country song is a song about life.
LifeSongCountryAbout
I mean, my girls are very sweet; I'm very proud of all of of them.
SweetProudMeanVeryThem
When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.
DreamsSchoolHigh SchoolKnowHigh
I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
PositiveSadPeopleYouWantRadio
I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
LifeWomenLiveBabyMy LifeBoy
'After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.
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If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
RestEnoughYouMatureOldOut
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