The coaches of TV’s hottest talent show share what they’ve learned about themselves and each other … and advice they have for all of us.

PEOPLE caught up with the Voice coach and asked him to share some of his favorite musical memories with us. His answers might surprise you.

My biggest fear is being in water that’s clear but so deep that when I look down, it’s dark and I can see my feet dangling.

But the one overriding facet of who Blake Shelton is led him down a path that made all these other designations come to pass. Blake Shelton is a Country Music Singer.

Well now to a show that gets people talking, The Voice. And Carson brought this season's coaches together for this very candid conversation.

Blake Shelton was speechless -- it doesn't happen often. But backstage at the CMA Awards on Wednesday night, the "Neon Light" singer was asked about tying Vince Gill for most consecutive wins in the male vocalist category with five.

Miranda Lambert has reached new heights as a female country performer: The fiery singer is the most decorated female artist in the history of the Country Music Association Awards. 

On 60 MINUTES last night, country music star Blake Shelton told us about growing up in Oklahoma and how he met his now wife Miranda Lambert.

Blake Shelton jokes that wife Miranda Lambert's nine CMA Award nominations make his three "sound (cruddy)."

Blake Shelton has one of the top country albums in America and a grin that won’t go away. He`s country music’s most recognizable star and that’s saying something, since eighty million Americans listen to country music every week.

Ruggedly handsome, down to get dirty: In many ways, Shelton, 38, is your classic country hunk.

The ever-genial Voice coach and Nashville champ, 38, fields our impertinent, random, and downright rude queries about his new record, his fellow-superstar wife, Miranda Lambert, and his on-air competition.

But Blake has been country music's male vocalist of the year, let's count them, one, two, three, four times. 

When Blake Shelton first heard that Barbra Streisand wanted to work with him on her new duets album Partners, it literally left him speechless.

Blake Shelton pulls double duty as a coach on NBC`s hit show, The Voice and one of the biggest names in country music. He is out with his eleventh studio album, Bringing Back the Sunshine.

“It's no secret, Miranda and I have had our ups and downs over the years, and this was definitely at a low point at our relationship," Blake Shelton tells The Boot about the day he first heard the song 'God Gave Me You.'

But play the classic get-to-know-you game Two Truths and a Lie with Shelton – whose album Bringing Back the Sunshine is out Tuesday – and you’ll get to know him even better.

Country star performs intimate show in New York to celebrate this week’s release of his ninth studio album, ‘Bringing Back the Sunshine’.

But it turns out Shelton's phone is also home to one very eclectic music library. So when we asked the singer to share some of his favorite tracks with us, he happily obliged. 

Blake Shelton, as the late singer Dottie West might have said, was raised on country sunshine.