As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.

Back down a country road the girls are always hot and the beer is ice cold.

I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definitely always up for that.

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite frankly, I didn't move to Nashville and tell myself I wanted to be a singer because I wanted to be a celebrity or I wanted to be somebody that people admired. I wasn't about that. I just loved music.