The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in love.

Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.

Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.

I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love songwriting. There is something so satisfying in coming up with an idea and turning it into a song that means something to people.

I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.

You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.