You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter.

It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on.

When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.

I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.