Gary LeVox Quotations

When we first got together, we didn't talk about who was going to sing what. We did 'Church on Cumberland Road' and it was undeniable when we hit that first chorus. We felt like we had to do it. We felt like it was ordained.

We have been so blessed since we moved to town. The response from Nashville to this show has been so tremendous that we decided we wanted to give something back to the community.

We've contributed a little to bringing people from the hip-hop world, the R&B world and the straight-up rock world into country music. It's win-win for everybody. I think country music people are too hard on saying what's country and what's not country.

We all had our heroes. If we've jumped into that position for somebody wanting to be an artist, we'll take it.

We spend so much time and effort trying to write the best songs that we can write and pick the best songs that we can. Everything we are as humans at that time is put on tape.

We got our start at this little club back in Nashville at this place called the Fiddle and Steel Guitar Bar on Mondays and Tuesdays. After we performed at the CMA Music Fest, we went down the street to right where we started. Those people were freaked out! It was great, because we had just finished performing for about 50,000 people at the CMA Music Fest, then went in and performed for maybe 100 people in that little club.

Thank you to Joe Henry and Doug Johnson for writing an amazing song. We were so humbled to be the ones to have done it.

It was really cool to do American Idol . That's a lot of folks sitting there, listening to country music.

It's more than I ever though it would be. My dream was to stand on that stage and sing, and that's just icing on the cake now.

The nomination is enough of a win for us. We're humbled by it. We've been fortunate to tour with the best. To be nominated for entertainer of the year is just an amazing surprise for us.

Because we're out there just beating the street and on tour and working so hard, you forget that award shows are even coming up because it's just about giving back to the fans. To see all your hard work pay off and have the academy nominate you and your peers think enough of you to have your name put in a category is just awesome.

Life is frustrating enough. Your hobby isn't supposed to put you over the edge.

We live in a world that is so quick to lose people's attention, and to move on to the next thing. We live in a YouTube world, so it's hard to build something slow like you did fifteen or twenty years ago. You have to have the kind of show that keeps people interested.

When you do an arena show, and the lights have to sync up to the sound, and the sound has to sync up to the music, and all of that - things are really mapped out, and you lose some of that spontaneity.

I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost a little bit.

You can't manufacture the feeling of being in a small crowd and connecting on every single level to the very last person in the very last row in the back.