Dierks Bentley releases new single

"I think you get to a point where you recognize what attraction is all about," Bentley said. "It's not the obvious stuff, but more someone who can go toe-to-toe with you, it is about that girl who wants to be as alive as humanly possible, to feel everything, to take it to the hilt."

"To me, the best country music is distilling how life feels... sometimes good, sometimes too much, but always real," he said. "We have all these emotions inside us, driving us, pushing us to places we might not even realize we're going. Sometimes you figure it out, sometimes you just surrender to it. To me, though, it's all part of it - and the more you give yourself over to it, hopefully the better the songs turn out."