Jake Owen has been off the road for months due to the coronavirus, and it sounds like he’s really enjoying it, especially since it’s allowed him to spend more time with his one-year-old daughter Paris, who he shares with girlfriend Erica. (He also has seven-year old daughter Olive Pearl, from a previous marriage.)

“I can’t tell you how much this last month … being home every day and the simple things of watching my little girl, as a one-year-old, crack up laughing in the morning while we’re feeding her a bottle,” Jake tells “Southern Living’s” Biscuits & Jam podcast. “Usually I’d be calling her from wherever, from a bus, a parking lot … it’s been a really big blessing.”

Jake says he’s also been very creative while and home and while he was supposed to be on tour with Lady Antebellum this summer, he admits he’s not really missing life on the road.

“I don’t feel like a caged animal,” he says. “I haven’t been this happy in 15 years, which is weird to say in a time like now.” He adds, “I’m hoping with this virus and everything that’s happening is that it breeds that same love and energy into people of understanding that life is fragile and … let’s start taking care of everyone around us more.”

Source: Southern Living