Dierks Bentley

Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music. ”

Whether lyrically or musically, it reaches in there and grabs your soul. That's the stuff I gravitate toward. ”

I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy. ”

I still feel like that 17-year-old-kid that fell in love with country music, but I also am allowed to write songs about being a man, too, which I think is the coolest place I've ever been in my life. ”

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter. ”

The people I always loved listening to had a little bit of dirt under their fingernails because they had done some living and had these stories to talk about. ”

I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He's no longer here with me, but I still drive that same 1994 Chevy truck. I never have bought a new car. ”

The radio is not show fun, it's show business. It's money. ”

I've had fans and friends in the business say, 'Oh man, you've made it.' I still don't feel like I've made it. I still feel like I'm as good as my last show, as good as my last single. ”

I can act... well, kind of. I'm comfortable in front of a camera. ”