We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.
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I was raised on pop music.
America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.
Before I really knew country music, I listened to pop, and I still do.
Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.
I am totally unapologetic about pop music.
More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.
I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.
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