One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.

I've been focused for a long time. I've given my life to do music. I've sacrificed everything.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

I live on a boat two months out of the year, and if I did not have that then I don't know how I'd be able to handle all this.... I am a very intense person on stage. I have to remember why I am there, what I am doing. You can spend all day backstage preparing for the show and lose sight of why you are doing this. Off stage, I am a very simple kind of guy. I live my life in flip-flops.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

My fans get enough politics on TV every day. I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them to listen to me.