We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something.

I will love you all my life and when I die I will still love you through eternity and beyond.

I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.

The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than 12 million underfed children in the U.S.? We can make a difference.

I grew up having to care what people think; it was part of my job.I've been built up and torn down, built up and torn down. It's been difficult to tune people out, especially in the las few years. Now i'm starting to care more about me and not what everybody else thinks.