I'm in college at North Carolina State University. I'm about to start my sophomore year and have an apartment on campus with three buddies I've grown up with. I get to be normal when I'm there, and then I tour Thursday through Sunday.

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.

I was watching the show last year and it didn't even cross my mind that this could even happen.

I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.

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.