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.

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.

It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

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

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.