To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers crossed, and hopefully we'll have many more, but there's certainly nothing like the first one.

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

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

Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.

You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

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.