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I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

Air All My Time Art Beautiful
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My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

Always Away Been Big
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My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

Beyond Bonus Focus Great
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Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

Am Bed Blessings Counting
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A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues.

About Amount Been Blessed
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Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.

Advise Alter Believe Business
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I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

Anymore Diaries Dirt Head
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I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can't happen until you make that move.

Anything Biggest Career Day
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My best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends. It's fun to tour with a buddy and somebody that I just enjoy hanging out with. If we weren't touring together, we'd be hunting in the off-season still and knocking around doing stuff, certainly.

Along Around Artist Best
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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

About Came Career Down
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I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

Also Always Back Big
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My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.

Album Better Doing Every
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

Believe Better Even Explains
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

About Add Extra Friend
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Because Business Every Every Time
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Africa Also As Far As Birthday
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

About Acquainted After Aware
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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Contact Easy Give Give And Take
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My painting does not come from the easel.
Come Does Painting Easel
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

Before Canvas Ever Hardly
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Am Around Ease Feel
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Away Brushes Continue Etc
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

When Am Aware Doing
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Business Continue Fail Good
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I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.

Because Been Drinking Eat
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I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off.

Couple Cut Find Got
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Women are Worlds that can not be explored in one day. Their world is no destination for cowards.

Women World One day Cowards
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There are people seeking your attention now that you are treating with disdain. Note that a future looms, where you will wish you had treated them better.

Seeking Attention Treating Disdain
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I’ve enjoyed meeting these refreshing young Africans who make me believe for sure that the Africa of our dreams is possible.

Enjoyed meeting Refreshing young Believe Sure
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Masculinity is not fragile. Masculinity is not toxic. It’s not fundamentally pillaging. It’s not fundamentally rape culture and exploitation. I like the masculine spirit. It is necessary. Dear men & boys, may we continue to show up in excellence and be our best selves.

Masculinity Fragile Fundamentally pillaging
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We must continue to pursue individual responsibility. We must continue to do what is right, even when it is hard.

Must continue Pursue individual responsibility Right
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You can reorient your life to the highest possible good that you can conceive of if you stopped wasting time, if you stopped lying to yourself. Success is a daily habit.

Reorient Your life Highest possible Good
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The hopes, dreams and aspirations of our nation and continent rests on you! God has equipped you with special abilities that can enable you scale over any mountain. Although our problems are numerous, I still believe there is hope for Africa!

Hopes Dreams Aspirations Our nations
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Cases Dies Hard Man
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I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak.
Fact Freak Might Open
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Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

Elton EltonJohn Imperial Jealous
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I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

Burnt Cliche Did First
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I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.

Art Better Connecting Connection
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I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

Album Anybody Big Bunch
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My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

Acting Always Artist Get
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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

About America Black Did
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I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet.

Away May People Quiet
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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Arms Better BetterWay Example
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The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Bankruptcy Bringing Constitutional Economic
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Because Changes Destroying Etc
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Artist Expressing Feelings His
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Abstract Any Back Beginning
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Come Life Own Painting
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Bound Emerge Figures Little
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Amount Center Depend Interest
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