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 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.

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

I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.

I think my music is definitely country but it's got a little bit of that rock flair about it. I always try to find the things that everyday people deal with in their everyday lives and situations in the songs that I sing.

I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.