Parade Magazine has an excellent interview with Kenny Chesney covering a wide range of topics, from football to marriage, having kids, playing at the Super Bowl, how he stays grounded, his new single, and much more.

Here are a couple excerpts:

Last fall, something inside Chesney changed.

“I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper. You’d think I’d have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it’s an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.”

Today, dating is a whole new ballgame.

“The world is a different place now. I mean, if I go out with a girl, there is a possibility that she’s going to get up from the dinner table and go to the bathroom and use Twitter to tell everybody what she’s doing. And the next thing you know, everybody’s got a play-by-play of what you’re having for dinner. That would make anybody uncomfortable.”

The other misconception about Chesney is that he’s not comfortable without his hat.

“When I was 17 or 18, I’d take my helmet off on the field, and I’d see hair in it and go, ‘Good God! What’s going on?.’ It did bother me in college a little bit–going bald–but it doesn’t at all now. What’s ironic about it is that friends of mine in their 30s and 40s are just starting to lose their hair and are freaking out. I went through all that in high school.”

Read more excerpts from the interview here and here.

There is also an accompanying photo shoot that you can view here.

Look for the full interview with Kenny in the Sunday, August 8th issue of Parade, available in your Sunday newspaper.