If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

I want to get into the whole clothing thing, movies, but I just want to make sure that my artistry is locked down.

In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.