He's been a good ambassador for country music for people around the world,

People laugh about that old joke where country music songs are about getting your truck repossessed. Well, I did have my truck repossessed, ... I did leave a good job for a shot at stardom only to end up with a career in retail.

I plan to just keep making my music and if there's an audience for it, it will come.

Hick-hop is a combination of your traditional country instruments - the fiddle, banjo, the pedal steel guitar - and then I'm running off the mouth on top of all that, ... I just started doing it because I grew up singing to country music and rap and rock, and I combined all my favorite music together and came up with this.

Man, I've had people for years tell me what I'm doing is ridiculous, and I shouldn't be doing it,

It started as a party trick. And the trick got a little bigger and the people started getting bigger.