I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair.