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.

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

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

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 best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends. It's fun to tour with a buddy and somebody that I just enjoy hanging out with. If we weren't touring together, we'd be hunting in the off-season still and knocking around doing stuff, certainly.

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

I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.