Jason Aldean

“It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.”

“It'll be my luck that the worst candidate will pick up 'Fly Over States' as his election song. Then I'll be forever linked to that guy, whoever he is!”

“It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.”

“Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.”

“My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.”

“There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.”

“Our first No. 1 was 'Why' and we waited two years to have another one. It felt like forever, and now I feel like I'm celebrating one every few months, which I love.”

“Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I'm doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.”

“I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.”

“I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.”

“I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.”

“You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.”

“I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.”

“Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around and come out with 'Feels So Right.' Go out and have fun and be those guys that like to party, then turn around and make every woman in America want Randy Owen.”

“I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.”

“To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.”

“I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.”

“You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.”

“I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.”

“I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.”