If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

When I first started, you could go to a college campus and it was not cool to wear a country artist's shirt on campus. It was taboo, and there was a stigma involved. In the time from then till now, I'm amazed at how much things have changed. It's young now, it's cool, it's hip

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.