Quotes By Kenny Chesney

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

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.

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!

I work hard but I play hard.

I've always been drawn to the ocean.

I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.

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'm pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women.

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

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

It's very hard for me to relax.

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 realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

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

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 remember making up songs in my head.

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.

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

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

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

I'm running a radio station.

I do sell fun.

The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.

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

Things that made me happy five, six years ago don't make me happy anymore.

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.