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.

I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.

If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.

I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a language with those guys because we work together every day. A lot of times, you bring in outside guys, studio players, whatever, and they're great musicians. It's just that they don't necessarily play the way I want it to be played.

After my first No. 1 song back in 2006, I worried I may never have another one.

I have a love of baseball and a love of music.

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