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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

I knew I was going to do a country album one day. But I was just trying to figure out for the life of me, what we were going to do to make it different, unique.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

For my first album I wanted to make a record that would be intimate, deeply personal, and honest.

I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.

I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.