I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio.

I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing “Jailhouse Rock,” the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.

I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist.

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.