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

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

I guess if you don't jump, you'll never know if you can fly.

I literally wouldn't have dreamed of it in a million years that I'm going to be standing there with George (Strait) and Garth and Kenny (Chesney) and Reba (McEntire) and Brooks & Dunn. I don't really have any clue what I'm actually doing with those people because I feel like I'm still just getting started and I've seen them all in concert and they're all my heroes.

My family is awesome.

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

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.