I grew up in a really small town in Georgia, so the idea of knowing people who are actors or who are just involved in the Hollywood and movie scenes, that's far beyond anything I ever thought would happen in my life.
— Coy Bowles
The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.
We never think about how many awards we've won. We just want to make the best music we can.
I got into writing short stories and blogs while on the road.
You think you have the most amazing life by having your dreams come true as a musician and marrying the woman of your dreams. But then you add a lil' baby girl... to the mix, and it's like you've never really lived and loved until she was here.
Songwriting is a big deal to me.
Carlos Sosa, the saxophone player for Zac Brown Band, and I worked up two songs for 'When You're Feeling Sick.' They were a blast to work on. The songs are real upbeat and silly.
I learned real fast that you need to have a plan of action when changing diapers, or it can get dicey fast.
A lot of times, people ask us about being a country band, and we say, 'Well, we're not really a country band.' And we're not knocking country, because we like it, but we don't want to be limited.
We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.
You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.
I try to cross as many genres as possible with the same attitude. I want every song to be very clear.
You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself.
You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.
I'm a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn't generally what I do. I'm a I'll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.
Stylistically, we do so many different things.
We listen to so many different types of music, so it's easy for us to play a different genre or style and it be true to what we do.
I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.
Life is short, so there is no reason why you shouldn't live it to the fullest expression of yourself.
My goal for children's books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book that every kid would end up reading at some point in their life because influencing kids in a positive way at such a young age is really cool.
I taught guitar lessons for a long time for a living before I got on the road. I really enjoyed hanging out with kids, talking about music with them, and trying to influence them in a positive way.
I'm so grateful to have been raised on love and to be so in love with my wife.
