I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get what you give.' The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.
— Zac Brown
People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.
I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.
We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.
The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.
I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.
You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything, and that's usually the people who don't ever create anything themselves.
Sir Rosevelt is a little more of a persona, and we dress up, three-piece Tom Ford suits, and it's a little more refined, visually.
You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well,' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.
I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and we're very blessed.
It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am outside, I am going to have my ears covered up.
I want to get better every year.
I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.
To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.
Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
It's a crazy experience for me to be in a Foo Fighters video.
We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.
When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.
I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.
Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
Each song has its own life.
Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too.
Good music makes you feel something.
When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
