I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.

Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.

I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.