The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.