Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

I live on hairspray. The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

I used to play for 200 people and now I'm selling out places that hold 16,000 people. It's a big change, and it's so cool to see people out there screaming the words to songs that I wrote. It just really reassures me that what I'm doing is working, and it really boosts my confidence, as far as on stage as a performer and a writer.

Platinum is a lot of things: it's hair, it's diamonds and platinum