There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.

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.

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

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.

There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.

To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

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