Matthew Ramsey

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 always talk about our kids being a great way to judge whether it's a hit song because there's something very basic about the way they perceive the music that I think needs to be there if it's gonna be a hit.

We definitely wanted to show we're a band that can be around, and we have something to say other than the lighter, 'pickup line' sort of songs.

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

I can't imagine being a girl out there on the road. We can throw a hat on and stink. Girls have to do their hair.

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.

We never really dreamed of being a band until it just naturally happened. All of a sudden, we were like, 'Maybe we should take this kind of seriously, because people seem to like it.'

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

We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.

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.

I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.

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.