Garth Brooks

I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.

I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was by myself.

We’re not going out there with somebody pretending to be Freddie Mercury. We are what we are now; we’re not what we were then, we’re just going out, playing our songs.

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

Ignorance is bliss? That’s bull, far as I’m concerned. Because I was making a half a cent a side – one penny for a record. It’s like building buses, for example. If you built this bus for me and I didn’t know anything about it, you could charge me whatever I’d pay for it. Now, which one of us is crazy? Me. And that’s the way they did me on the records. But I don’t fault them for it, because if you don’t know, you don’t know. It took me to learn.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don’t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Diamonds never leave you… men do!

Because every person, no matter who you are-how tall you are, how short you are-some things work on you and some things don’t. I don’t like to wear things that feel like costumes. Whenever I work with a stylist, I always find myself saying the same thing: ‘I want my dress to say, I’m just here from New York.’ That’s why I always end up in black or brown. If I try to wear too much color, I feel like I’m pretending to be from Los Angeles and I’m not getting away with it.

I don’t actually own a car.

At this point, we aren’t just flirting with disaster; we’re rounding third base and asking if disaster has any condoms.

Guys act strange around me. I swear I don’t know why!

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I’m living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don’t enjoy being in the public eye.

If you really love someone, you shouldn’t have to work at it. You finish each others’ sentences and have the same sense of humor.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

It’s nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.