Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.

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.

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

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

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

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.