Quotes from Matthew Ramsey

When you go out for the night with your buddies, it feels like you're in a band, and I think everybody can relate to that.

'Still Writing Songs About You' - that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time we play it. I just love the sound of it, and I feel like everybody probably has that person that they never fully forget or never can get past.

I definitely wear a lot of Tom Ford jackets on stage.

A band in our position, we have a first impression to make. We don't want to come out of the gate and make people sad. I think we consciously made that choice to keep it happy and up.

When people want to be associated with us, in the end, that's going to help us gain more fans.

There's no need to put a dumb picture of us on the album cover. We always look at ourselves and think, 'Wow, we look like idiots.' We'd rather have a piece of art on there.

There's no shame in being a support act for anyone. It's been extremely beneficial for us to be allowed onstage for any of the artists we've toured with, and we've gotten some big exposure from them sharing their crowds with us in the past.

We have always been a touring band, and we love playing live.

It's pretty cool to see, like, from town to town, how different the crowds are.

The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.

Personally, my favorite 'meat' song is 'We Got It Right.' As soon as it comes on, it transports me to a different place. And I'm really proud of our performance in the studio on that one.

In the end, yes, I'm the singer of Old Dominion, but we're a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much.

It's fun to dress up and look good. And it's fun to try on clothes and wear a different jacket every night. It also helps you on stage to feel like you belong there.

As writers, you spend so long trying to build your cred as a writer, and then everything comes together at the same time: your artist career happens when your songwriter career is, too.

That's the challenge as a songwriter is that there's only so many things people want to hear about, and relationships is just one of those things.

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.

SiriusXM has been an unbelievable way for us to share music. Songs move a lot faster there than they do on terrestrial, so hopefully we can continue to partner with satellite radio as a way to share as much music as possible with our fans.

The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear.

Honestly, with pop and rock and things, artists are from all over the place, so they're kind of isolated. The city of Nashville helps create the camaraderie. Everyone moves there for the same reason.

It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited.

The truth is, that's what we moved to Nashville to do - to learn how to write hit songs. We weren't necessarily trying to get on college radio. We're trying for mass appeal.

It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.

There's a lot of people out there - like, a lot of people out there - that wouldn't know our music if it wasn't for Spotify.