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.

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

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that. And for me, 'Night Train' was kind of a metaphor for where things have gone, from being on one bus with 12 other guys, pulling a trailer my first few years on the road, to now. We're out here with six or seven buses and eight or nine semis.

Yeah I'm chillin' on a dirt road, laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones.

I think great songs can come from anywhere and you constantly have to be able to look out for those. I think a lot of the times people will try too hard to write everything themselves and therefor miss out on great songs that way.

You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.