I Always Try To Make The Music

I Mean, My Voice Has Gotten A Little Deeper Sounding As I've Gotten Older, I Think. I Noticed That.

"after 17" Is A Song I Wrote When My First Daughter Went To College, So That's Kind Of Where I'm At In That Part Of My Life. If You Listen To That Song And Knew Anything About Me, You'd Say, "oh Yeah, He Wrote That About His Daughter," But I Try Not To Write Them That They Are So Specific That They Wouldn't Apply To Anybody That Has A Child.

I've Been A Lot Of Places, And My Wife, Denise, She Likes A Lot Of The Fancy Restaurants. I'm More Of A Basic Eater. I Still Go Into Cracker Barrel. Those Are The Kind Of People Who Like The Kind Of Music I'm Making.

I've Always Stood Up For Country Music.

Hee Haw Was Probably My Biggest Exposure To Live Music At A Young Age, Because There Wasn't Any Live Music Around My Town And No One In My Family Played Instruments.