I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.

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 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.

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.