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I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

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I love Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my top five records.

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Romantic stuff is not something I really remember.

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I'd be lying to say I've not experienced a lot of racism in my life; it's very much alive. I don't let it bother me. I couldn't be the singer I am if I didn't let it go.

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My kids don't care about anything. I'm just Dad to them. They don't get excited about anything.

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What I love about each album is the opportunity to expand on what we've done in the past - to push myself and the band creatively, vocally, and lyrically.

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I've always listened to country music. I wanted Hootie to become a country band at first, but I was outvoted.

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At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.

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I grew up in South Carolina. A lot of what I remember back in the day is AM radio. When I was a kid, you could hear Stevie Wonder and Buck Owens on the same station. All the walls and lines between music were taken down for me.

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When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing a character was very similar. It was high energy, and I had to really think about the emotion of what was going on in the scene.

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Golf is the greatest but most maddening sport there is.

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I'm used to being the only black guy. I've seriously walked onstage, looked out in the audience, 15,000 people - and I'm the only one in the place. It's no big deal. My whole career's been like that.

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I was an 8-year-old who loved wrestling and watched it religiously every Saturday at one o'clock.

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There's a lot of stuff I thought I'd do in the world, but I never thought I'd have a street named after me in my hometown. It's a great feeling.

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Arnold Palmer is my favorite, just getting to know him and all of the film on him and his game. He was the first real superstar in golf. You had Bobby Jones and all of those guys, but Arnold Palmer was bigger than life.

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There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

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The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.

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It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.

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I'm going to make country records back to back for a while - until country radio doesn't want me anymore or until I get my own theater in Branson - one of the two.

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Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

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Getting people to come play my 'Darius and Friends Show' was so easy because it's for St. Jude, and that's a great thing.

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I had an AM radio and listened to Al Green, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder, Charley Pride and Cheap Trick - sometimes in the same hour on the same station!

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To have John Mellencamp compliment my songwriting? That was unreal.

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I'll take the kids to school after breakfast. I love doing that - love being a dad.

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It seems that with other kind of music, they are looking for the next big thing, but with country music, they might be looking for that, but they also want to have that warm blanket that helped them through that relationship or that singer they have always loved.

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