Interview: Jason Aldean

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Personally or musically?
 
SM: Both.

JA: Well, personally I have made a conscious effort not to change that much. On the other hand though, it is kind of hard not to change when you have lived almost thirty years a certain way and then in the span of six months it is completely different; so it is kinda hard not to change but I was kinda expecting it so I tried not to let it affect me that much. I think the people around you change more than you do. It’s like family members that you haven’t talked to in over five years are pissed because you don’t call them, and you’re like ‘well I never talked to you before so what difference does it make?’ That’s kinda weird.
 
As far as music is concerned, I think I have gotten more into what it is I want to sing about. You know, like I said, the first album we were trying to figure it out. We had an idea but we really didn’t know exactly how to get it where we wanted it. Over the years you get comfortable with what it is you are trying to do and how to get that sound. None of it has changed; I just think we have refined it a little.
 
SM: When you each go back home, do people who knew you growing up treat you any differently now? How do you react to that?
 
JA: A little bit. There are a whole bit of people who I think still treat me the same as they always did. It’s weird because those are the people I tend to like hanging out with the most. It’s hard because I see their point too - they’re at home doing the same thing and they see me on TV or Radio and when I come home they want to ask me a hundred questions about everything that I am doing and it’s like the stuff that I talk about every day and I just want to go hang out and get something to eat and drink a beer. Its tough because life for them hasn’t changed at all and the life for me is way different. Its kinda tough. A lot of the things you once had in common with everybody you really don’t have in common with them any more. But now I know it’s coming. When I go home I know it’s gonna be like that so I don’t hang out with the ones that do that, only the ones that don’t. The ones who still make fun of me and whatnot are the ones I like hanging out with.
 
SM: Do you find it is hard to maintain relationships as well when you are always on the go? How do you handle that aspect?
 
JA: It is tough. I have never been one to pick up the phone (I hate talking on the phone first of all) and I have never been one to pick up the phone during the week and call people and say ‘hey how are you doing?’ And now especially, a lot of times I will say ‘well I need to call whoever on Friday’ and then the following Friday I will remember and say ‘damn I was supposed to call them last Friday.’ It gets crazy, because out here you are traveling so much, and then sound check, meet and greets, airports, interviews. Its just, whenever you find you have a moment to sit and relax, the last thing you want to do is get on the phone and talk to someone for an hour. You know what I mean? I think so many relationships start to suffer a bit from that. It’s not something that is done intentionally. It is just something that kind of happens that way.
 
SM: Fame or Fortune? Why?

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