Quotes By Kenny Chesney

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

I've always been drawn to the ocean.

I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point.

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

It's very hard for me to relax.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

Believe it or not, I want to keep growing my audience.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

I remember making up songs in my head.

I want to spend more time with my family.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

I'm running a radio station.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

I do sell fun.

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn't know me.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!