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.

You know, if Kelly Clarkson wants to do country albums because that’s what inspires her, then let her do it. Look at Kanye West or Ludacris ... they aren’t rappin’ and cussin’ like they were on their first few albums, so what does that make them? It’s all in the eye of the beholder and the listener. We all use our outlet to grow ourself.

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

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

To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers crossed, and hopefully we'll have many more, but there's certainly nothing like the first one.

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

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.