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" Sometimes when you're writing a song, it's work, and you really have to make sure you're kind of pounding out every little piece of it. And then sometimes you write a song, and you turn around and you go, 'How did we do that?' "

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" It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited. "

Matthew Ramsey

Easy

Business

Down

" Honestly, with pop and rock and things, artists are from all over the place, so they're kind of isolated. The city of Nashville helps create the camaraderie. Everyone moves there for the same reason. "

" I can't imagine being a girl out there on the road. We can throw a hat on and stink. Girls have to do their hair. "

" I think it's natural for people to see a band and imagine themselves as part of that. That's what I grew up fantasizing about, looking at posters of bands on my wall. There is an allure to a band. "

" The first time we went to the ACMs, no one really knew who we were. "

" I definitely wear a lot of Tom Ford jackets on stage. "

" Working with a company like LIDS just makes sense for us. Every night, we play a song we wrote that has now become a hit and was inspired by seeing so many of our fans wearing Snapbacks. Our fans are LIDS customers, and we are excited to partner up and bring them into the Old Dominion family. "

" SiriusXM has been an unbelievable way for us to share music. Songs move a lot faster there than they do on terrestrial, so hopefully we can continue to partner with satellite radio as a way to share as much music as possible with our fans. "

Matthew Ramsey

Way

Radio

" When Taylor Swift was first beginning to really take off, a couple of guys I knew in her band called and offered me a job on her tour playing acoustic guitar and singing background vocals, and they thought I would be a really good fit for it. "

" Everyone wants the same thing in this band, so we definitely respect each other. I mean, all of us have had hit songs, so it's a band full of people who really know what they're talking about, so you have to respect that even when you think something you have might be great, and they go, 'Man, it's not as great as you think it is.' "

" In the end, yes, I'm the singer of Old Dominion, but we're a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much. "

" We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle. "

Matthew Ramsey

People

Over

" I love art in general - architecture, anything creative. "

" There's no shame in being a support act for anyone. It's been extremely beneficial for us to be allowed onstage for any of the artists we've toured with, and we've gotten some big exposure from them sharing their crowds with us in the past. "

Matthew Ramsey

Big

Support

" It's pretty cool to see, like, from town to town, how different the crowds are. "

Matthew Ramsey

Town

See

" There's a lot of people out there - like, a lot of people out there - that wouldn't know our music if it wasn't for Spotify. "

" When people want to be associated with us, in the end, that's going to help us gain more fans. "

Matthew Ramsey

Help

Fans

" The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear. "

" It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it. "

" That's the challenge as a songwriter is that there's only so many things people want to hear about, and relationships is just one of those things. "

" We don't take ourselves too seriously. We're just friends that like to goof off. "

Matthew Ramsey

Just

Friends

" As writers, you spend so long trying to build your cred as a writer, and then everything comes together at the same time: your artist career happens when your songwriter career is, too. "

" When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can. "

" There's no such thing as a broken heart, and there's no such thing as a Sasquatch. "

" The truth is, that's what we moved to Nashville to do - to learn how to write hit songs. We weren't necessarily trying to get on college radio. We're trying for mass appeal. "

" There's something about the West Coast. The air is lighter. The vibe is chill. "

" There are albums that I listen to religiously just because I'm such a big fan: any Bruce Springsteen album, or old George Strait albums because the songwriting's so strong. "

" This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention. "

" It's very rewarding to know that people respect what you do. "

" I'm a huge Lionel Richie fan, and sometimes we actually listen to Lionel Richie on the bus. "