I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek a specific tempo or lyric or melody. It just has to make sense. Maybe it is natural because I was given the gift to sing.

I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.

This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.