After my first No. 1 song back in 2006, I worried I may never have another one.

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.

My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.

It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.

Traveling all over the country and all over the world, I think you've got a lot of pop acts and a lot of rock acts that are making a point of traveling to different places and making people aware of their music and their shows and the whole deal and I think country music has always sort of stayed, for the most part, in the states.

I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.

My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.