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.

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

I think it is possible to be friends with employees, but there has to be a respect level where you're not taken advantage of, either.

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.

There were years of that stuff that will never leave me. Never. When the bus turned a million miles - that's a lot of traveling. It's really cool to think about. I'm blessed to have traveled a million miles on a tour bus.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

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