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

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

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

I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.

Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.

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.

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