You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

As far as heroes thorough the years, I’d say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie.

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.

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.

I am just what I am, I'm just what you see. So I'll make it easy, I'll stay me.

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

Anytime you have a fellow artist say, 'Loving the new Luke Bryan album,' that's awesome.