“I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get th…” — Gary Allan

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.