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.

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.'

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.

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.

I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.

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