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I wrote that song ‘Black,’ and it was just this idea that I had been married for 10 years. Everyone talks about ‘happily ever after,’ but there’s so much more to it than that.

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My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you‘re constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

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I can act… well, kind of. I’m comfortable in front of a camera.

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I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

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I never met Johnny Cash personally, but I feel like I did because I listened to so much of his music, and even though he’s gone, it’s still there: you can go pull a vinyl record out and hear his personal thoughts and his voice and feel connected to him.

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I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy.

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I ask myself all the time, ‘Why keep doing this?’ If I wasn’t exploring or finding something to write about that was personal or meant something, there’d be no reason. If I was ever making a record just to make a record, or ever just like, ‘Just put something out there that someone will buy,’ I would quit.

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I try to make sure to get off the bus as much as I can, try to do something during the day that’s local to where I am, whether it’s hiking or fishing.

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When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

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Being married is one thing, but having kids will completely change you. I still go out and hang with my buddies, but having two daughters will completely change your perspective on the world.

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I do see the world as being different for girls – especially now, having daughters.

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I wrote a song called ‘Here on Earth,’ and the hook is, ‘There’s no answers here on earth.’ Basically, searching for the ‘why‘ when someone passes away, and I feel really fortunate that my dad lived as long as he did. But no matter what happens or how it happens, it’s certainly a stinker.

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It’s hard to make music when you’re not excited about it. So trying new things and going for new things is something that I can enjoy doing.

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Some people associate red with love, but to me, red is for an earlier stage of a relationship. Black is much deeper, to me. It’s certainly the sexiest color.

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As soon as I got into country music, it was like hook, line and sinker. I was so focused on country, I ended up leaving all those ’80s hair-band CDs behind – which now I still wish I had, but I was done with it.

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I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He’s no longer here with me, but I still drive that same 1994 Chevy truck. I never have bought a new car.

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That’s how I feel, oddly, when I walk on stage in front of 20,000 people, and it’s crazy, the madness: I feel the most relaxed and free, and all of my worries and troubles just are gone. Just I feel the most present in that moment.

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My guitar, it was new when I got it, but it has a hole like Willie’s where it’s just worn out from my pinky going back and forth over the wood over all these years. I got Willie Nelson to sign that spot on my guitar. I’m a huge fan of him.

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Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

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Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.

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The radio is not show fun, it’s show business. It’s money.

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I hope fans walk away still feeling like their batteries are charged. I want fans walking away high-fiving strangers.

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I’m trying to call more and text less. I don’t want to check my phone 5,000 times a day anymore. It was getting to me. I’m bringing ‘old’ back.

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I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It’s not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

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Honestly, I sleep best wearing nothing. But with kids, I’ve learned to sleep with underwear very close by, if not wrapped around one of my feet, so I’m ready to go if something happens.

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It’s Frederick Dierks Bentley, but my whole family goes by their middle name – my sister, my brother. So from day one, I’ve always been called Dierks.

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I have so much respect for the genre of country music and for all the greats that have been a part of it. I’m a country singer, I’m a country fan, and I’m a student of country music.

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I really can’t tell you the feeling I feel, like, being on stage: it’s such a high; it’s like running a marathon. You just can’t get that feeling anywhere else.

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I love singing fun songs; I’ve built a career on them.

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I put a lot of time into making sure my relationship with my family is well taken care of because I want to be as successful as a father as I am as an entertainer.

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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I tell my wife when she‘s listening to my songs that the slightest hint of whether she likes it or not puts the pressure on me.

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If people sneak into my show, that’s a sign of a good show, you know? If people want to risk getting in trouble with the law to come see you play music, that’s a sign you’re doing something right.

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I started thinking about this truck and why do I still have this same truck? After all of these years, why am I holding on to that? I just starting thinking about other things: guitars, boots and jeans. I just had a tendency to hold on to the things that have meaning to me.

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I don’t tour to make money: I do it because I love it. When I’m putting a tour together, I’m not sitting with number-crunchers, having them tell me I can’t do this or that.

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I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

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I never want to lose the audience‘s attention or break up the party, but at the same time, it would be weird not to do some new music.

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If you got in my truck, you were listening to country music, and that’s the way it was for a long time. I’m a little more open to other sources of music now, a lot more. But for the formative years, I was just very into country.

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I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don’t want to be McDonald‘s that serves the same food every time.

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I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.

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I was like, ‘Man, bluegrass – that’s like Roy Clark playing banjo on ‘Hee Haw.’ I’m a huge ‘Hee Haw’ fan. But I didn’t know about bluegrass. It seemed like old people‘s music.

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A Sunday morning spent reading the paper together, maybe drinking some mimosas, alone, and talking until noon. That would be pretty amazing. Married couples with kids will understand.

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You can’t write about stuff you don’t know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

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As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

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I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It’s also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.

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In my 30s, I became more open to music other than country or bluegrass.

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I go from being in front of 2,000 people, shot-gunning beers on stage and acting like a complete idiot, to being in a Mommy and Me class, waving a little pink handkerchief around 12 hours later!

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If someone wants a picture, I’m so honored and so flattered, and I hope I have a reputation as someone who goes out of his way to do those kinds of things.

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I’m surrounded by all these strong women – my publicist, my manager, and my wife – and sometimes I think that women are more evolved than men, and they are able to process a heartache better.

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I’m part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone’s always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

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Everyone talks about new love all the time, but there’s so much to draw from when you’ve been in a longer relationship. It makes me stick my chest out a little bit. It’s like, ‘I know what you’ve been through, but you don’t know what it’s like over here.’

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