You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well,' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.
We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.
If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.
All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.
Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.
I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.
I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.
When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get what you give.' The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.
I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
I just hope everybody stays with us. We are not trying to be snobs or jerks. We are in a whirlwind trying to figure out the best way to be accessible.
My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
