To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

If you're callin' 'bout my heart, it's still yours / I should've listened to it a little more / Then it wouldn't have taken me so long / To know where I belong

And I'm no quitter, but I'm tired of fighting.

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

I probably have the crappiest tattoo -- not only in country music -- but maybe the world.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.