I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.

If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.

You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song.

I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.