You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it’s going to take to get you on the radio. Alan Jackson Read Quote
The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don’t need, what wears you out and what’s important. Alan Jackson Read Quote
I like to write sad songs. They’re much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don’t want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing. Alan Jackson Read Quote
I’ve had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy. Alan Jackson Read Quote
After 17′ is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that’s kind of where I’m at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you’d say, ‘Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,’ but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn’t apply to anybody that has a child. Alan Jackson Read Quote
