Life Doesn't Get More Real

The Best Advice I've Been Given Is Kind Of The "dance With The One Who Brought You" Thing. You Got Here On What You Do So Don't Change That.

I Went To My Dad When I Was 17 And Said, 'i Want To Be A Country Music Star.' Which Every Dad Loves To Hear. And He Said, 'i Want You To Go To College.' So We Had A Discussion. And I'm Pretty Stubborn. I'm A Lot Like Him. And He Said, 'if You Go To College And Graduate, I'll Pay Your First Six Months Of Rent In Nashville.' So He Bribed Me.

I Think Right Now, You've Seen These Artists Pop Up Over The Last Decade Who've Flirted With Branching Together A Lot Of Different Kinds Of Music. Some Of Them Have Been Huge, And Sold Millions Of Records. And I Think Over Time It's Become A Little Bit Of What The Industry Can Be.

Many People Have Come To Think They Can Just Wake Up And Have Things Handed To Them.

In The Digital Age We're In Now, With Satellite Radio And Pandora And Stuff Like That, It's Not About, "i Listen To This Kind Of Music." It's About, "i Listen To Good Music And Bad Music."