I get nervous playing the Opry still. You take that nervous energy and channel it into being amped.

I came here to be sure it's actually true that we're playing this place.

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

I do see the world as being different for girls - especially now, having daughters.

I still feel like that 17-year-old-kid that fell in love with country music, but I also am allowed to write songs about being a man, too, which I think is the coolest place I've ever been in my life.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.