Life's up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.

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

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.

Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I'm excited that there are no songs on 'Tailgates & Tanlines' that I'm iffy about.

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.

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.

I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'