“[For families that have been coming for years, even generations,] every year they know they can get that pastrami sandwich or an Emblem Club taco, ... It's just a matter of familiarity.”
“I ran into (a problem) with 'Almost Home' because we put out the next single a little early, so we're not trying to do that. We're trying to keep the bases loaded.”
“I have been very fortunate from the get-go because I am a songwriter and was writing songs and was fortunate enough that I was getting pitched top-shelf songs because the songwriters were my friends.”
“I think once I figured out where my groove was or my thing that everybody started honing in on what they could pitch me. I demoed a lot of great songs that I didn't cut, and some turned into big hits like 'Roundabout Way,' and 'Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo,' but they just didn't work for me.”
“You don't have to be a redneck to be a member of a redneck yacht club. It's a term that in the past has been a stigma or a stereotype, but songs like this and other various songs, even though they talk about the very things that people imagine rednecks doing or being, they're realizing that a redneck is more of a lifestyle than a person or a people.”
