My elementary school is still there [in Luttrell, Tennessee]. I drop by my high school. It's a small community. I say this every night before I do the song 'The Boys of Fall' in the show - I'm really happy about where I grew up and how I grew up.

One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

If I'm 40 years old and wearing a 30 waist, that's pretty good.

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.

I'm glad I took that time to work really hard on the music. I feel the effects of that now in a positive way with my connection with the audience.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.