My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.

A No. 1 record is hard to come by.

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.

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.

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

My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.