For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.

I want to do music the rest of my life.

I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.

'Something More' is a song that I wrote not necessarily about country radio, more so about a lot of songs that were being pitched to me. I wrote that after song after song after song was just the same song, just a different melody, so I was just looking for something more to put on the record.

I was an Elvis freak. That's all I listened to growing up.

Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never met, you're pretty much going in and taking off your pants in front of strangers, so it's a really weird feeling.

I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.