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I was really only around country music on the radio, and I think because I grew up so close to Atlanta, and R&B was such a big part of that culture, by proximity I think a lot of that music influenced me without knowing it.

I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.

More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.

Music is everything to me. It's the heart and soul of a movie or TV show to me because it can be such an injection of tone, and I think tone is everything to a story.

I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.

I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.

The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'

I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.

In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

I do feel pressure internally and externally to put out music, but that excites me because I love songwriting, and this brings me back to why I got in music in the first place, so I'm excited about that.

Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.

I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.

Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.

My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.

There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.

I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.

Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.

Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.

On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.

I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.

I love so many styles of music.