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" 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. "

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" I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs. "

" 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?' "

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

" There's no need to put a dumb picture of us on the album cover. We always look at ourselves and think, 'Wow, we look like idiots.' We'd rather have a piece of art on there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our sound is different because it's who we are as a band. "

" 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. "

" 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 wanted to make a living, but success was creating a song that we enjoyed playing. Quite honestly, that is still a measure of success for us. "

" I get excited about a crowd that likes our kind of music. "

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

" When we come on the radio, people will go, 'That's Old Dominion,' 'cause it's a sound that can only be made by whatever the five of us make together. "

" The more successful we get, the more opportunities come our way. "

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

" 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. "

" We never really dreamed of being a band until it just naturally happened. All of a sudden, we were like, 'Maybe we should take this kind of seriously, because people seem to like it.' "

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

" It's a huge deal for us to have our own headlining tour and our name on the ticket. "

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

" 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. "

" The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A band in our position, we have a first impression to make. We don't want to come out of the gate and make people sad. I think we consciously made that choice to keep it happy and up. "

" You definitely want your own fans, but you also want the support of your peers and the people you work with. "

" 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. "

" I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna lead you there. So it's hard to find great songs. "

" We love writing hit songs. That thrills us. "