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

I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.

That's gotta be the one remaining constant - jeans have gotta be tight, baby.

You get weird, funny requests on Twitter. With our fan club, I was seeing a lot of fans were having some issue with the way the fan club tickets were being handled in one of the shows. So I was able to correspond with that fan, and be like, 'Listen, we'll be on it.'

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.