I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

It's so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal.

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.