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.
I'm by no means the person that I strive to be. I don't think anyone is the person that we strive to be. But I try.
I feel like that's my foundation and my roots, what I believe in - no matter where life takes me, I'll always be the same guy and same person at heart.
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 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.
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 always had a musical bone, I guess if you will.
My parents are avid supporters of me, and just hearing my name and the word 'Grammy' in the same sentence would be a dream come true. I mean, that's something you put on your tombstone.
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 got a rebel side in me, but I'm not mean!
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 liked Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. Those were some of my favorites.
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 feel like I have gotten to know Chicago pretty well, and every time I come here I have a really good response.
My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open.
I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.
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 have my hopes high. I don't know how I'll top the Luke Combs tour, but I guess we'll see.
I didn't know if I could write. I was writing all these songs at home and was like, 'Maybe I can write?'
I didn't grow up being a performer, really. I played baseball.
