I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.

If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.

Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.

I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.