Quotes by Toby Keith

If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I’d been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

I’m as strong, strong as I can be, but ooh ooh ooh, baby you leave me weak.

You know, I’m pro-troops, but I’m not pro-war.

I’m not talking about locking down forever, baby, that would be too demanding.

Somebody’s sexual preference is, like, who cares?

That’s more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.

I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I’d go stay with her and that’s where I got to watch her band play – she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

I write all year, and at the end of the year I put an album out. And if sucks, it sucks, and if it’s good, it’s good. I just let it lay where it lays. It doesn’t stop from doing another one next year.

Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow – radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat – I would still write songs.