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.

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

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.

My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.