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'm a big sports fan in general.

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

My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

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.

My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.

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