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.

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.

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.

That's the biggest problem existing in this country! People are always mixing up the word free and freedom. Free is something you get for nothin.' Freedom is a responsibility. We think freedom means do nothing, don't be responsible for your actions.... I think its time for adult Americans to be responsible for themselves, to take back the responsibility of being a free nation.

Whatever you do today you've got to sleep with tonight.

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.

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