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.

I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can't happen until you make that move.

I wouldn’t necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed into somewhat of a cultural icon, so, who am I to judge what she is?

Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.

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

You get weird, funny requests on Twitter. With our fan club, I was seeing a lot of fans were having some issue with the way the fan club tickets were being handled in one of the shows. So I was able to correspond with that fan, and be like, 'Listen, we'll be on it.'

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.