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.

Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I'm excited that there are no songs on 'Tailgates & Tanlines' that I'm iffy about.

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

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.

That's gotta be the one remaining constant - jeans have gotta be tight, baby.