>> absolutely. you have had a remarkable career. 5 billion streams of your music. 25 number one hits. 10 in a row, at one point. how do you explain it? >> it's about the song. country music is about the song. if your song is saying something -- here we are talking about why i wrote "same here," why summer is what it is. that's the key, if i had any advice for anybody, it's say something you believe or something that you really can't wait to perform and cause emotion with. and when you do that, you know, the rest follows. i've said all along, as a songwriter or not, i wrote most of my hits, but there's some i didn't. anybody with those exact songs is probably a bigger star than me. i feel like it's always about what you're saying, in our format, at least. >> why do you think that somebody else singing your songs would be a bigger star --