There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.
Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.
Jason Aldean is actually probably a really good rapper. He sounds like it to me.
The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.
I always make a joke that they transplanted Martina McBride's eyes and put them in my head.
When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at it under a microscope and know that each station is just trying to do what's right for their market, and it's scary for a radio station to add a song that they don't know how well it's gonna do for them.
I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.
One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.
If there's one thing special about me, it's that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door.
I would not want to be Richard Simmons... right now or anytime. He seems like a nice guy, but if I had to dress like that? That would absolutely suck.
Raffles are no fun.
If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other.
The Grand Ole Opry is an artist, and I am proud to be one of its songs.
My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.
I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes.
I hate reality shows. But if I had to be on one, I'd have to say 'Realtree Road Trips' on the Outdoor Channel.
My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets.
I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.
In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
People are scrambling to figure out how they can prolong the life of an album. But as long as the shelf space continues to shrink at retail, there's just no room for them anymore... which is fine with me! I would love to be the next person in country to just release digital singles, but I think we're probably a little ways from that.
