I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend’s wife, and she was my wife’s best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.
I think it’s important to do things that you’re interested in. I think it’s important to have other outlets away from the music industry.
If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don’t know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn’t take that long.
Obviously when you’re making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.
I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn’t around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.
I don’t think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.
People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don’t see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.
Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point. So I think it is still important to have physical CDs and stuff like that.
My goal is that when the last song is over, and you’re walking back to the parking lot, you’re already on your phone searching to find the next show.
I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it’s cool and has mass appeal.
She gets on you under your skin like a tattoo she’ll always be there!
You’re not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don’t know anything about that.
You don’t want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.
I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I’ve always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn’t make sense not to do it I guess.
Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don’t have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.
I think it’s important for artists to work together. It’s great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does.
You come to a country music show and it’s like a rock show, it’s so different, it’s just not what people think it is, it’s really cool and I think that if people just give it a chance they’d see that it’s really cool and I think that’s what people are finally starting to see.
There’s nothing cooler than a good fitting, worn-in pair of Wrangler jeans, so it’s great that with the new Retro line, my fans can go out and rock the same styles that I love.
Capricorn was one of the homes of the Southern rock movement with the Allman Brothers and Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band. I don’t think you can come from that area and not be influenced by that stuff a little bit, no matter what generation you grew up in.
My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he’d go to work, he’d map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I’d sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.