Garth Brooks

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.

I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.