The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'

I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.

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 country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.

If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.

I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!