When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

I think certainly after every show I headline, I will be available to the fans. When I'm headlining a show, I don't walk off stage. I'll walk to the front of the stage and sign hats and shirts and tickets for 15 to 30 minutes, until everyone has everything signed.

You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

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.