You gotta *be* country music - you can't just sing it.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

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

I want to do music the rest of my life.

When you're the opener, you're the guy getting the crowd warmed up. But when you're the headliner, you're the main dude. People come to see you, and you have to deliver. It's a cool position to be in.

I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.

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.