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My life is like a Harley Ride. When I'm on my bike that's really one of the places I feel completely at home.
She's definitely an angel sent from above. How can that not rub off on a man? What can I say? I'm a mama's boy.
When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.
I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse.
If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.
I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.
I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.
Being on stage and on a motorcycle are two of the only places I feel comfortable and free. Those are my happy places.
I can honestly say that everything I've ever listened to has influenced me or motivated me in one way, form or fashion.
I wanted to make sure that if somebody special did come along, I was the kind of man that a woman like her would deserve.
Every bit of joy in my heart, you know, every smile on my face is yours. It's awesome to be able to share that with somebody.
Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.
Don't get me wrong. There's always situations where when it gets bigger than me, it's time to go talk to mama and daddy and God.
It's been cool to catch up, but I think I'm done with my exes. To be honest, I went out with flying colors on the majority of them.
What you see is what you get, and the majority of people in my life that loan me clothes know that they've never seen me in a suit.
I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.
Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.
I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.
It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.
I'm old school. We're from a small town in Georgia, and I think if we do pictures before the wedding, I think I'm gonna be blindfolded.
For me, I write some songs that are really important to me, and I've got some feedback where some of them help folks and inspire people.
I've got my head screwed on in the right direction, for the most part. It may be turned a little bit to the left, but we're getting there.
A friend is someone who supports you. And these people are buying tickets at outrageous ticket prices. If that ain't support, I don't know what is.
It's a little less stressful as a support act, because the headliner carries the majority of the weight. But as a headliner, we get to play a little bit longer.
There's a song called 'My Faith' that's kind of my spiritual song on my record. It's a little bit of my softer side of me, comin' out of left field a little bit.
It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that's one of my main goals in the business - to continue to be me.
Most of my rings are not expensive at all; they're just things that remind me of people that gave 'em to me. And they all have their own stories, their own meanings.
When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!
I stay on the road so much that my fiancee and I were talking the other night about what I wanted her to cook. I told her I don't even remember what a home-cooked meal is.
When I had my wreck, it really just put everything into perspective and really opened my eyes. I've always been one of those guys that thought 'it will never happen to me.'
I'm not real good at surfing, and I'm terrified of sharks. That's, like, one of my main fears. Snakes, sharks, deep water, and commitment. I think those are my four big ones.
From the R&B side, I've always been a huge Brian McKnight fan. He's just as talented as it gets vocally, and as a musician. I think it'd be real cool to do something with him.
I like to lift and do cardio to stay in shape, so I can walk the dog on somebody, and I like to be strong, but running 10 miles or a decathlon? That don't support my interests.
I was fortunate enough to have a situation in my life where everything did shake out and hit rock bottom, and I did see who was standing there and really saw who had my back for real.
I try to just encompass the entire feeling and emotion behind the song the best way possible, and if that's 100,000 screaming guitars right in your face, then that's what's going down.
I wanted to go where the people work hard, throw down, and really needed the party... Saginaw is all that and then some. I looked in those faces - and I knew, these people mean business.
I'm a very happy man. I've seen how bad it can get, and I'm sure it could get worse if I let it, but all that made me appreciate where I am. Plus, I'm married to a very hot woman who got away.
If I read a script in the future that I feel like I could have a little fun with or that reflects me well, it may be one of those things that I try out. But, of course, music's my number one priority.
Country music has its way of getting into the minds and hearts of people. I will say - you never know how long it's gonna take something to grow, you never know if you're gonna hit in a certain market.
I tell everybody, 'If you want to get to know me, if you listen to those three records, you'll have a really good idea.' They were released at different time periods in my life, and those are the things I was going through.
Yeah and she's my kinda crazy The little games she plays Lord they'll never get old She's too cute to get on my last nerve The way she throws her little fits Pokin' out her lip and bitin' mine when we kiss There ain't a fight that she can't win That's my baby And she's my kinda crazy