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So many people have stood behind me for so long.
The lines have definitely blurred between country and pop music.
We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.
I draw inspiration from everywhere, whether it's country, R&B, gospel.
We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.
To work with one of your heroes is the greatest things you can ever hope for.
We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.
We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.
I don't know that I could pick a better place to raise a family than Nashville.
It's weird to think about being introduced as 'Hall of Fame members Rascal Flatts.'
My faith and my beliefs sustain me through all of the craziness that this life brings.
After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.
Living country is more about your values and beliefs than cowboy hats or living on a farm.
Typically, every 14 to 16 months, we're putting a new album out. To be honest, I wish it was slower.
I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.
Country's opened its boundaries so wide that it embraces everything, and it gives everybody this new freedom to create now.
We were just hoping 'Prayin' for Daylight' wasn't a complete flop. Selling a million records wasn't even in our wildest thoughts.
It caught us by surprise when people started calling us a boy band because we'd always considered ourselves pretty serious musicians.
There's really an art form to putting together a set list that flows evenly and that takes you on a ride and doesn't feel disjointed.
I think, as long as people are doing their craft at a high level, I'm going to have respect for it and find something that appeals to me.
I think our live shows dispelled any misconceptions people had about us. When you come see us live, you know we're anything but a boy band.
There were so many years that were going by at a lightning speed that it was so hard to kinda put our heads around what was happening to us.
I remember as a little kid watching the Opry from the nosebleeds, so to stand onstage and be invited to be a member was really, really cool.
Constantly writing with new people is important. Also, listening to new music that's popular and that's making a splash - that's how I get motivated.
I'm surprised at the loyalty of the country music fan. People that started out with us at 'Prayin' for Daylight' still come to multiple shows a year.
It's no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I'm not making them with Flatts, then I'm out producing them on other folks.
I love watching new acts find their footing. It's fun to watch them early on in their careers and get a gut feeling about who's going to be a superstar.
I guess, somewhere along the line, when we first came out, somebody thought it was a crime to be young and not wear a cowboy hat and sing country music.
I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.
We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.
When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.
I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.
It's no secret that anybody who knows the music business knows that the numbers are substantially different in Christian music than they are in country music.
It's such a wonderful thing for me to be able to be in there and make music with people that I love, first of all. It's something that I'm so passionate about.
I am living proof - and I know this for a fact - that you can find encouragement and strength through the message that's in Christian music, because I've lived it.
Chicago was a big influence on all three of us growing up. I admire their musical integrity. When the opportunity came up to produce them, I couldn't let it go by.
If people would've heard what we were doing back in the clubs in the late '90s, they would be really shocked to find out how country our sound really was back then.
We do pretty much the same set list every night, and the show's down to certain cues because we have video and all this production and lights and everything going on.
I remember when 'I'm Moving On' came out, and we got the response we did, I thought, 'Man, this could be for real.' That was the first time it dawned on me what we had.
That's what Joe Don Rooney and I do. He plays guitar and I play bass - and there's no reason to call it a band if you're not gonna have the guys in the band playing on the records.
I love every aspect of live performance and putting our shows together and approaching it from the standpoint of, 'What would we want to see if we were a fan sitting in the audience?'
Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.
When you sit there, and you sing the chorus - and then you look at each other, and everybody has the hair standing up on their arms - then everybody knows you've stumbled onto something.
We've gotten to do so many great things throughout the years. We've gotten to meet presidents. We've been able to go to so many wonderful awards shows and meet so many great celebrities.
We live in the Bible Belt. I was born and raised in church. That's something that was really, really important to me, to build that foundation with our kids so they at least went to church.
You start to compete with yourself when your catalog gets bigger and bigger... I mean, everybody wants the next 'Bless the Broken Road,' but you don't write those every day, so it's difficult.
There's nothing worse than looking out and seeing some guy with his arms crossed while you're singing your heart out on a new song, and he's going, 'When are they going to do 'Me and My Gang?''
I'm not really concerned so much with the industry, except in country music, as long as our fans keep coming to the shows and keep buying the records and we keep having success on country radio.
When you do an arena show, and the lights have to sync up to the sound, and the sound has to sync up to the music, and all of that - things are really mapped out, and you lose some of that spontaneity.
I think it happens with every career when you've been around 10 or 12 years. You start to get on cruise control a little bit, then you freak out and go, 'Oh my gosh, we've got to change some things up.'