What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say.

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

I get on Twitter, one of my routines during the day, if I'm home is, I wake up, get a cup of coffee, turn on the Weather Channel and I'll look at what people are saying to me on Twitter on my phone.

Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.

The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?

Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let him.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management.

I'm never going to listen to someone trash my wife.

If there's one thing special about me, it's that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door.

Raffles are no fun.

I never really saw myself doing a Super Bowl promo.

I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.

I love Cee Lo, but I avoid him when he's holding that smelly cat.

For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.

I've spent a lifetime in love with country music.

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.

I've never played it safe on my own music.

What I do is what I like; if I'm not as famous as I'd like to be, I've done it to myself.

My fans are the best; I love hanging with them.

Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.

As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.

I don't give a crap about clowns.

Even if it's your wedding, if you're a guy, it's boring.

I do know a good singer when I hear one.

I totally remove myself from any costumes, wardrobe, any choreography. I could care less about that stuff.

My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.

The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.

The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve.

I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'

I don't ask other artists for too much advice.

One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.

Maroon 5 are worldwide stars.

I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.

The Grand Ole Opry is an artist, and I am proud to be one of its songs.

I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes.

I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.