Eric Church Quotes - Page 2

Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home.

I don't care if I starve.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

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

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

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

I want to be the guy out there on the edge.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.

If I was concerned about my legacy, there’s no way I would ever sit there [and be a reality-show judge]. Once your career becomes about some¬thing 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.

I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone for what's happening in the industry. And I take that seriously.

In the digital age we're in now, with satellite radio and Pandora and stuff like that, it's not about, "I listen to this kind of music." It's about, "I listen to good music and bad music."

When I first started, you could go to a college campus and it was not cool to wear a country artist's shirt on campus. It was taboo, and there was a stigma involved. In the time from then till now, I'm amazed at how much things have changed. It's young now, it's cool, it's hip

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

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

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

The biggest thing is to continue to do what you do. A lot of people, when they get to a certain level, start thinking about it too much and they change what they do.

I think a lot of times, artists and albums can become formulaic. You're known for a certain thing, and you continue to do that. You just change the subject matter, but it's the same song. And that's what you do.

When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.