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.

Every night before bed, I rub my wife's feet. She says they're the best foot rubs on Earth.

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

Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

My thing is, when you put a bunch of rules on a tour, you have to hire three more people to enforce all the rules. So, with me, I want everyone to feel comfortable. It's a lot of little moving parts out here, and little hiccups will come. At the end of the day, the show's going to go on, and I want everybody to truly enjoy it.

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.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.