I didn't want to act like I'm too cool for school or anything like that.

My 91-year-old great-grandma would get out of her chair and whip me if I start acting like I'm some star or something like that.

I didn't necessarily grow up with country being my first priority as a music listener. I grew up listening to classic rock and Christian music.

I'm all for a good slow song and I love all different kinds of music.

My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open.

I just want to make music people like.

I think sometime during the peak of 'Whiskey Glasses' is when I realized: 'Man, this is really starting to happen. People are not not just singing these singles, they're singing every song on my album and really invested in what I'm doing.'

I really got into Three Doors Down - that's the sound that was out when I was 12 or 13. I really loved Breaking Benjamin and bands like that.

It's cool to be able to relate to people who aren't necessarily from the same way of life as me or don't even maybe know what I'm talking about in some of my songs. It's just cool that music has that ability to do that.

I don't want to be New Vocalist of the Year; that's not a goal of mine. If those things come along, that would be awesome, but that's not something I strive for.

I had a bowl cut. That was pretty bad. Definitely a bowl cut. And I used to have blond, like really, really, blond hair when I was a kid. So blond bowl cut - that's what I was rocking when I was a little kid.

I think that the best music and the music that people relate to the most is the honest music that people feel themselves in it.

I got a call from my manager who told me Diplo was working on a country project. I put my vocal on the songwriting demo and my team sent the song to his team. Evidently they fell in love with it... and the rest is history.

My whole life, baseball was my first love. I was gonna go play college, but during my senior year I tore my ACL, and college kind of faded away with their offer, which I understand, obviously. That was a dark time in my life.

I definitely don't wanna be known as the 'Up Down' guy. I love singing that song, I love that song, but yeah, there's definitely more to me than just a party for sure.

I wanted to put a song out there to let people know who I was and, at the same time, help me set apart from a lot of different people in country radio.

Whenever my parents got married, my dad had a mullet. Me and my dad are very similar-type people with the way we look and the way we act, and I figured if he could get away with it when he was around 25, then I could try to do the same thing.

I've always liked all kinds of different types of music.

I have my hopes high. I don't know how I'll top the Luke Combs tour, but I guess we'll see.

I liked Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. Those were some of my favorites.

I didn't grow up being a performer, really. I played baseball.

I got a rebel side in me, but I'm not mean!

A lot of people say I talk like 'country-gangster' almost. I don't know how that's possible or how that happens, but some people say that.

And it's always good to get back home and see the people you love, and get to spend time with your family on top of playing your music.

My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up in my room, and I was just trying to figure out how to play the guitar and put words with what I was learning.

We don't put the Ten Commandments in school anymore. We just neglect everything and people act like the Ten Commandments is something so terrible. I mean, it's a way to live. I think we all could agree on what they say.

I feel like I have gotten to know Chicago pretty well, and every time I come here I have a really good response.

I think Diplo is a true global artist. I feel that he is exposing country artists to his global reach and that's something that is rarely done in our genre.

I didn't know if I could write. I was writing all these songs at home and was like, 'Maybe I can write?'

I want to make more fans, sell records.

I would play around bonfires with my friends, and people were telling me that I was good.