I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

I'm a little drunk on you, and high on summertime.

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.

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.

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.

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

Probably fishing is my first passion.