I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music City is the variety and flexibility: the fact that there's so many musicians at your disposal, so many amazing studios and talented people that you can draw from. ... I try to be myself, but at the same time I'm learning a lot, and I'm pulling from not only from the well of inspiration that I'm getting from Nashville, but I'm pulling from my roots.

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.