Alan Jackson Quotes
'After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.
Jackson, Alan. Interview. The Boot, Townsquare Media, 2012.
While the President and his wife were an exceptionally close couple, there was not a good relationship with their children. They were the only presidential couple whose children had no part in their White House lives whatsoever. Critics of Mrs. Regan who gave effusive advice on how to bring up children observe that not only were her ideas (ie Just Say No) silly, but she and Ron were not very good parents themselves regardless of their espousal of “family values”.
Alan Eugene Jackson is an American singer and songwriter. He is known for blending traditional honky-tonk and mainstream country pop sounds (for a style widely regarded as “neotraditional country”), as well as penning many of his own songs. Jackson has recorded 16 studio albums, three greatest hits albums, two Christmas albums, and two gospel albums.
