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.

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.

Our crew guys, it's amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night.

Tangle me up like Grandma's yarn.

Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.

Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.

My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.