This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

I'm the guy who loves being in the supporting cast.

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.