It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.
I've always been drawn to city skylines.
It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience.
I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!
That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.
Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.
I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something.
No one's going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce.
I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.
You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.