The Pedal steel because it's so mysterious.

I've kind of become obsessed with the pedal steel. It's a beautiful sound, and the mechanics of it are so interesting.

People's attention spans are getting short.

To me Country Music is about real life.

He was a good guy.

Hick-hop is a combination of your traditional country instruments - the fiddle, banjo, the pedal steel guitar - and then I'm running off the mouth on top of all that, ... I just started doing it because I grew up singing to country music and rap and rock, and I combined all my favorite music together and came up with this.