When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show.

Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

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.

A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues.

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

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

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.