Garth Brooks

When Yale reached out, I thought it was a hoax, but they really followed through.

I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go onstage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience, and I like to feel in most cases like I’m a big guy with long rubber arms that I can reach around my audience and swing and sway with them – move them with me. And many nights, I can’t. Many nights I can. But you do like a good manager with a baseball team. You keep pulling pitchers, you keep trying.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I’m in my fifties and sixties and this isn’t what I’m going to look like.

Trump is like a magic eight-ball; every time you shake him he gives you a different answer, and sometimes the answer is just ‘big-league’ or ‘that’s some body on my daughter, right?’

Two Sundays don’t make a season. But if we keep it together, we are going to win a whole bunch of races this year.

[on Popeye] If you watch it backwards, it has a plot.

I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I’m very thankful for everything they’ve done for me so, of course, I’m going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love keeping my life to myself-that’s how I’ve always been.

[on Kylie Jenner’s cover shoot] I need a half hour to cry

I’d say I’m a bit of a fatalist but not as much as I was. I used to be like “whatever happens happens” and have that innate fatalistic outlook. But I think it’s more about what you are thinking in your own mind that is the most powerful aspect of controlling your own life.

I have no enabler bone in my body – not one. I’m sort of like, ‘Oh, are you going crazy? I’ll be back in an hour.’

It’s nice to be important, but it’s important to always be nice.

I do worry – a lot.

A lot of kids join the army to get a college education. That’s why they do it, and they get sent into these horrible situations.

I didn’t think my career would last this long, and it’s still going.