Our crew guys, it's amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night.

I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life.

My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

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

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.