There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.

I'd had my whole life to write my first album. I had my No. 1 and my third single out, and they go, 'Hey, guess what? We need to start recording the next one.' I'm like, 'Uh oh, I got to write another album. Well, how am I gonna write 'Should've Been a Cowboy' and 'Ain't Worth Missing' and all that again?' It took me forever to write the first one.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

When I go in and vote, I vote for the person I think will get the job done.I don't vote right-left.