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I love clever lyrics.
I love an imperfect rhyme.
I'm in the gym constantly.
Tragedy levels the playing field.
I love lyrics that are not too clever.
My wife and I started dating in 11th grade.
I want to be more selfless and look outward.
For 12 years, I was playing writer's rounds.
I get off on finding new ways to tell my wife 'I love you.'
I think we all love the music we listened to as kids the most.
My music is just about that bounce and getting everybody moving.
My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'
I think every couple should find an artist that they dig together.
I'm pretty chill, but once birth starts, I go the opposite of chill.
I'm a tough, tough person. I always have been tough to embarrass, too.
Back home, the Iron Bowl isn't just a football game, it's a phenomenon.
I have some lofty goals. I want 'You Broke Up With Me' to go Number One.
The last thing I want to do is just be another voice on country music radio.
It's relaxing to be around somebody that you don't have to try so hard around.
'You Broke Up With Me' was fun yet definitely addressed an inner emotion of mine.
What keeps you in this business is the thought that maybe tomorrow will be different.
I'm not mad at anybody for that, but when I lost my deal at Capitol, things got rough.
I will go down on my deathbed telling my kids to find songs like 'Don't Take the Girl.'
Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.
When my voice isn't doing what I want it to do, it's crushing in the most heavy way possible.
Taylor Swift - I don't ever hear anything of hers where I'm like, 'Oh, so-and-so could've cut that.'
Talking about my addiction to alcohol is therapeutic. Most definitely telling everyone about it is as well.
I'm one of the lucky artists in Nashville that gets to - I know it sounds cliche - but just write from the heart.
I had a lot of wrong preconceived notions about church-y folks, and I'm bad at judging the messenger, not the message.
Most of the time in Nashville, you're so replaceable. Anybody can get another nice-looking guy to sing a country song.
I overuse words. My kids catch me saying stuff. They're like, 'Hey, you say that all the time.' 'Boom' is one of those things.
I want to be something that the listeners might not know that they needed but that I fill a lane and that they enjoy it for a while.
That's one of the reasons I got into country music: because of the craft of that lyric and how much you could put into three minutes.
In my opinion, my business runs better when my family is a part of it, and I get to see my wife and kids; that makes me a better artist.
Somebody told me a long time ago that if everybody loves you, somebody's lying. It is the truest statement you could ever say to somebody.
That's kind of something we - my team and I - text each other a lot. Anytime something great happens, we're like, 'Hey, look, the song's #17. Boom!'
I feel like, when we are young, especially, while we are experiencing so many 'firsts,' when songs move us, we recall exactly where we were when we heard them.
'Check Yes Or No' is a song that I reference in ''90s Country.' George Strait had a very crafty lyric: it tells a story then comes back around. Never gets old.
When I was at Capitol - and this was not Capitol's fault - I was aiming, you know. I would listen to country radio and go, 'What version of me does radio want?'
I'm so honored to have so many supporters - from my peers to the industry to country radio - on this crazy journey with me. You all have absolutely changed my life.
People might get mad at my style or my delivery and say it's not country. But the country music that brought me to Nashville? Man, I will always have that on a pedestal.
I felt the pressure to let go of music. I was like, 'It's just a hobby. It's just a dream I'm hanging on to, and my kids don't deserve having me have trouble taking care of them.'
It's cliche, but everybody says, 'We're all one song away,' and it's so true. The difference between me and the guy down the street busking with his guitar case open is just one song.
I was a big athlete, but I think a lot of the things I did were because they were my false identity, if you will. They got me acceptance, and they got me that attention that I craved.
When I'm in the studio, I'm very cautious about it because if there's one thing that can destroy music being made, it's any sort of agenda, expectation and/or schedule, or any of that.
Things that you might be embarrassed to tell a group about yourself - honestly, that's probably what the majority of the group is experiencing are those things that you keep quiet in your heart.
What's great about being an opener is that even when you lose, you win. There's no pressure. And no expectations. If you sell merch, you're killing it. But when you headline, you have to sell those tickets.
I've always felt very insecure being around in-laws, even my siblings - like the guy who made a bad decision, or the guy who would never just fess up that I'm not good enough to make it, or I don't have what it takes.
For years, I wrote songs to try to get cuts or try to have hits or try to appease a label or to be famous. I was learning a lot of valuable tools about structure and how to articulate. I was getting really good at that.
One of the most humbling gigs I've ever had was I was paid by a neighbor to go get a dead bird out of her house. She was kind of a high up in the music business, and she knew that I needed cash, and I used to do some yard work for her.