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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.