I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.

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.'

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

No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.

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.

My goal is that when the last song is over, and you're walking back to the parking lot, you're already on your phone searching to find the next show.

Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.