Kenny Chesney's Quotes

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!

It's not just in my industry... everything is so sensationalized that there's not a lot of heart and soul in a lot of things there used to be heart and soul in.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.

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

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 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'll admit I'm a workaholic.

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.

I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.

I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.

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

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

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

I do sell fun.

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm a helluva kisser.

I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.

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

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 needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

I remember making up songs in my head.

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

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