Coy Bowles

There is an idea that at some point in your career, you 'make it.' I understand the theory of 'making it.' I don't exactly think that it's the best way to look at it.

I never thought we were a country band in the first place. I think we've gotten ourselves into a place where we don't underestimate our listeners and what potential there is for the music they've heard all their lives.

It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of writing and playing. There are so many memories wrapped up in each note and each song that it's hard not to constantly flash back to what made that musical event happen while listening.

Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

Once you start getting into giving back, it gets addictive.

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 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.

We're able to play different genres and be very specific in sounding like we know what we're doing.

The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.

Stylistically, we do so many different things.

I'm grateful for being able to explore different avenues of my writing, whether it be music or stories, and it have an audience.

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.