Darius Rucker Quotes (25 Quotes)

It was such a blur. All we saw was that the shows were getting bigger. It's like people say, a lot of it is a timing thing. We came out at the right time.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

Seriously, I thought it would be one of those things that would just come and go,

It's more relaxing after 10 years of thinking that we'd never get a record deal. And after doing as well as the first record did, we feel like we can make records whenever we want. That's the biggest change for us as a band.

We wanted to have our own nice, small label that has respect in the industry. We're really looking forward to the ride with them.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

I love it. I'd do it again any time, and I'm sure we'll do it for other records. It was awesome. We met cool people and got some really good songs out of it.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

It definitely won't be a rock record, ... If I wanted to make a rock record, I'd just do one with Hootie.

People really seem to forget there's people in Bahrain or Saudi Arabia who are there for a year or whatever, ... In their hearts, they're there to protect the people of America and what we stand for.

I'm hoping the backlash is over. We've been going through that for the past eight years.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I turned to my wife and said, 'Honey, I'm in trouble.'

I've known Tiger since he was 18. Tiger is a great guy. I am so happy for him right now.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

And the age difference -- you've got women in their late 50s and ... kids just going into the sixth grade. The people that are Hootie fans are Hootie fans. They love us, and we love playing for them. We definitely don't do this for any other reason.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.

We can't thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he needed tonight for his show and I'd find some way to get her to let me head to New York.

Dave LaChapelle talked me into it, ... I thought it was going to be no big deal, probably not too many people would see it. Then I was having a party during the Daytona 500, and it was the first commercial on it. I told my wife, 'Honey, I think I'm in trouble.'

Success doesn't suck.

On Valentine's day, I'm doing a show with an orchestra. We're doing a show with all standards for the Children's Hospital in Charleston.

Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

I'd work with Justin any time. I think he's a great artist. I think our voices would be perfect together, with my baritone and his tenor, we'd be awesome.

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.