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 it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

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

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

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.

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