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" The only piece of advice I've ever given anybody is learn to write songs and write as many songs as you can. Because it's never gonna hurt, and when you run into that problem of, 'God, I don't know what I want to say,' or the opposite problem of, 'I know exactly what I want to say, but no one has written it,' then you can just go write it yourself. "

" If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn't have a deal, I would have probably said, 'Yeah.' Now I'm so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me. "

" I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering! "

" We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture. "

" It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less. "

" The only thing I want to be known as is a country singer. I want people to hear it and go, 'That's country!' "

" My family and I are very close, and they mean more than anything to me, but I'm also the kind of guy who likes to go out with my friends and have a good time on Friday nights. "

" Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song. "

" Finding new books to read and relaxing is what I enjoy when I do have some time to spend on my own. "

" My biggest ritual is writing at home more than on the road. I do very little writing on the road. Actually, it's funny to bring this into it, but one thing I always do is have a cup of coffee. I drink the most coffee when I'm writing songs. "

" I think the biggest way of connecting with people is through your music and kind of saying what you want to say as an artist. And hopefully, you're making something that someone's going to be like, 'This is my favorite song.' That's always your goal, I think, anybody in any genre. "

" Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights. "

" I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup. "

" I grew up loving Vince Gill. That guy sounds just like his record - or better than his record. I've always been such a fan. "

" For every single show you do, make sure you go out and literally try to beat what you did the day before. It's something that you can incorporate into everything you do. If you're constantly trying to beat your best, over time it will help you grow. "

" I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album. "

" I go home, and there's dust on everything because I'm never there. "

" My favorite part is, once a song is out there to the public, having someone come up and tell their own story about why one of your songs resonated with them. It's an incredible feeling. "

" I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else. "

" I'm really loud. I can't sing softly. "

" There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might have been about me,' or, 'I know it's about me.' I do play that pretty close to the vest. I don't think I'm ever gonna write a song and drop somebody's name in it. "

" I'm a huge fantasy football fan. "

" I really love something that's strong vocally and a little more difficult to sing because it's fun. "

" I'm a sucker for a sad song. "

" My standing gig in college was playing the El Chico patio on Murfreesboro Road. I got $100, tips, and free quesadillas. "

" Everybody's like, 'You're tall. You didn't play basketball?' They asked me when I was a freshman in high school, and basketball practice was the same time a lot of stuff happened with choir. And I picked choir, which, normally, people would scratch their heads at, but it worked out okay. "

" I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of the things I do vocally, notes that I pick in chords. "

" I don't want to be the person who has the gigantic headlines: 'Look Who So-and-So Is Dating Now.' That, to me, isn't really who I am. "

" When I was making my second record, I was in studio, and I was like, 'No more ballads! Absolutely not!' And somebody walked in with 'The Man I Wanna Be' and I heard it and was like, 'Ah, crap!' "

" Your family are people you lean on and learn from. When I told my family I wanted to do music, they were really supportive. "