Quotes from Jon Pardi

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.

At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.

I love coming back around Northern California.

I grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I've been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He taught me how to hunt and shoot, firearm safety, and have respect for the outdoors.

I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.

I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody.

If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.

I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much more.