It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

In 1994 I bought my first tour bus. I still own it and believe it or not it's still out on the road on my tour.

Ive always been drawn to the ocean.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."

I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.