The title [of the album 'The Big Revival']alone fit what I was feeling. It defined what I was going through. That year off was a time to revive, to reset, to reclaim, to revitalize and to re-focus. It was a revival of how I made music, how I presented it and my connection with the fans.

Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.

So yeah, it's nothing that I'm doing on purpose, I just think that the more records, the more songs that I write, the more records that I make, you're obviously going to fall into a specific style and thank God it's a style that people are into.

Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'