You learn as much from those you don’t like as you do from those you do.

You can’t manufacture the feeling of authenticity.

It’s the little things in life that add up to big things.

I think that life is beautiful if you have the perspective to take it in the right way.

I think we’re all constantly searching for who we are.

You can’t be your best until you find your peace.

My music is about healing and hope.

It’s about making the best music you can and doing it with conviction, and if other people respond to it, that’s great.

I don’t want to be a flash in the pan.

I’m always looking forward. I don’t dwell on things.

You’ve got to work hard for your success and you’ve got to have a steady presence. That’s the secret.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

I hope everybody enjoys our input on ‘Black Water’ – it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.

To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It’s not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It’s about really paying your dues. It’s people I’m fans of and want to help in the business.

We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.

Family comes out whenever we know it’s gonna be steady on a run that’s continuous.

It doesn’t seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work – what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.

We’ve gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We’ve got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we’ve done. So the title ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ really covers the breadth of the record.

The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.

I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, ‘You get what you give.’ The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.