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

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.

Probably fishing is my first passion.

When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

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.

My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.

Anytime you have a fellow artist say, 'Loving the new Luke Bryan album,' that's awesome.