I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels.

I'm always looking for things that make me kind of uncomfortable.