Eric Church
Eric Church

I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama.

Eric Church
Eric Church

I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging.

Eric Church
Eric Church

I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented.

Eric Church
Eric Church

Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home.

Eric Church
Eric Church

I grew up in North Carolina, and they have a soft drink called Sun Drop. I love the diet version of it. It's the greatest thing on the face of the earth. I always have it in my fridge - bus fridge and home fridge.

Eric Church
Eric Church

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

Eric Church
Eric Church

My dad was in furniture for 35 years. He got run out of furniture when everything went to China, went overseas. Manufacturing in the country broke down. Everything left.

Eric Church
Eric Church

I grew up listening to The Band. I love Lowell George. I love Little Feat, and I was listening to some Springsteen, some of the deep album cuts. I just like the looseness of that kind of music. It all feels like they did it in one take. They let whatever happened happen. If it felt good, they kept it.

Eric Church
Eric Church

Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level.

Eric Church
Eric Church

My favorite thing is to go out in the arenas, like, an hour before doors, and run the concourse. And you get that anticipation. You smell the popcorn. You see the people tapping the kegs. And nobody is in there yet but you, but you feel it. It's my favorite thing on tour.

Eric Church
Eric Church

When we go out there, I want to be the act that, no matter who's in that crowd, they've never seen a better act than me. I'm gonna empty the tank.

Eric Church
Eric Church

There are some commercial artists that have number one after number one, and you go to their show, and the show's one-note. Yeah, they're all hit songs. But there's no emotion, because they're the same kind of hit songs, because they're what works at radio. That kills live shows for me.

Eric Church
Eric Church

The stigma with country is it's not cool. That's wrong. Country is very cool. I look at award shows, I look at how country is represented. Country is represented with an asterisk. We have to perform collaborations. We have to perform a tribute. We can't perform by ourselves.

Eric Church
Eric Church

My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life.

Eric Church
Eric Church

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Eric Church
Eric Church

To me, the most powerful people in this country, politically, are mayors. If you took all the mayors of the 25 biggest cities and you got them together, you could do more on that level than you ever could through the bureaucracy in Washington.

Eric Church
Eric Church

There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who are some of the best players I've ever heard but are playing on their porch tonight because they've never chased success. There's simplicity to how they live and what they care about.

Eric Church
Eric Church

I really love pizza after midnight.

Eric Church
Eric Church

I would be on the 'anti-reality' show. I can't stand reality TV. I can tell you one that I absolutely would not be on, and that's 'Dancing With the Stars.' If you ever see me on that show, just please understand my family is starving to death, and things are really bad in the Church household.

Eric Church
Eric Church

I'd still stand in line all day to get into an AC/DC show, because that was the one show when I was younger that kind of changed my life. Because it was a little wrong. I think I was 14 or 15, first concert without the parents, you know, and they were all worried because we were going to an AC/DC show, and it was an amphitheater.