In country radio, everybody has such a connection and a bond. So you've got to meet them.

The tattoo that means the most to me would probably be my Chinese symbol on my neck. It means love - I got it on Mother's Day.

Growing up, I never had a steady home.

I am not interested in changing who I am to fit someone else's idea of what a category should be or look like.

I just feel like I have a chance to be a role model now.

It kind of feels cool to be the outsider.

I feel like everybody that saw my videos was like, 'Oh this dude's about to rap.' They just played my videos, and I feel like I shocked a lot of people.

I love everybody.

I know that sounds weird, but I always compete with myself. If I do something, I always look at a chart and say I can do better the next week.

I have the best and most loyal fans in the world, and they are used to connecting with me since the very beginning.

The world is so crazy.

My fans love everything. You can find my fans at a Drake show; you'll find my fans at Post Malone all the way to Pink. They just love music in general.

My nana is a real life mentor, and so is Brad Paisley and a few other idols in country music.

We lived in eight or nine different houses and six or seven different apartments growing up.

My team and my fans are going to keep growing and getting better and making a name for ourselves.

I've learned that I don't take 'no' as an answer. I'm very competitive; I'm very prideful.

I definitely see the genre opening up a lot more. I don't know if black people don't want to get into country music or what, but I feel like we're breaking down barriers.

I started going on YouTube and studying everybody who was super popular, from Taylor Swift to Beyonce to Michael Jackson to Chris Brown, just everybody... That's what helped me find my voice and helped me find how I write songs, just doing covers.

It's been neat to find out different writing strategies. I've been in the room with so many different writers. Sometimes, you write with tracks, and other times, with acoustic guitars. That's been really a cool thing, because it brings out different lyrics with you.

In the first game I ever played in high school, I had a pick-six for a touchdown. That was a fun memory.

A die-hard country fan, they're not going to a Drake concert.

Nobody deserves to be bullied.

That's something that I never thought I would have in a million years. We've done Gold before with 'Used To Love You Sober,' which I thought was awesome, but you don't realize once you get to Platinum, and you see the number difference between 500,000 and a million.

I used to isolate myself and be in my room by myself all the time.

I kept my circle small. I had my friends that I knew wouldn't do anything to hurt me, and I would also stand up for them, and those are still my friends today.

I was kind of nervous to put 'Learning' out: it's a lot different. That's who I am. I'm going to push the boundaries.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

I get hurt when people talk bad about me because I'm not that person that will hurt anybody.

Music has been a huge part of my life, and I feel like it's a part of everyone's.

Matt McGinn and Taylor Phillips played a big part in getting me where I am.

I realized everything my mom had done for me: Anything we didn't have, she made sure we had.

On my posts, I would tell people, 'If you like this, give it a share.' If you go online and look at my videos, you might see where I have 80,000 likes, but 525,000 shares. That's where you gain more people as followers coming in. It took me a second to learn it all, but now that I have, it's been a blessing and a curse.

After graduating from high school, even though I was working, I didn't have enough money to pay rent, so I stayed with my Nana.

When I was younger, my mom and I lived in a car because we didn't have anywhere to go.

I just want people to know that they can make it through hard times like I did.

I was on the road with my buddy Alex - he's my guitar player - and we watched the movie 'Click' by Adam Sandler. And I don't know why, but me and him just got in our feelings. And then we ended up calling our girls, and we were like, 'We're so sorry. We wish you were here!'

A lot of people that only like country music, they're not fans of mine.

I got bullied so much growing up for being a different color in a majority white school.

If you come to my shows, there's all kinds of different races, all kinds of different people.

I still feel like an outcast on the inside, but it doesn't bother me anymore at all.

My music-making process is pretty fun and easy.

I've had a good-size fan base for a while.

My fans have always been supportive and have always been there for me.

Radio got behind me, and I'm very thankful for it.

I feel like I should show people that no matter where you come from - you can get beat by your stepdad, if you get picked on for your clothes and having no money - I just feel like everyone should know it will be all right as long as you keep focusing on trying to move forward and looking at the positive things in life.

I'm a role model to a lot of kids.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.

Everybody's got high expectations for me. I just don't want to let anybody down.

My first impression when I heard 'Heaven' was, 'Do not let anyone else have that song! I'm putting it on hold.' I knew it was special from the first time I heard it, and I thought my fans would love it as much as I did.