Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don't know what's healthier or what's the best thing - probably whatever yields the best songs.

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences.

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.

I'm a little drunk on you, and high on summertime.

I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life.

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.