I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

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.

The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.

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

I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it based off of me having a child might be a little confusing. I'm sure as my life goes forward, and she starts growing up, there will be a lot more things to include in my music. But, at this point, I'm just sticking to what I do.

I like to take my dog on the road. He stays up front; he likes it there.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.