Luke Combs can now afford to buy whatever he wants, at Christmas or any other time of the year, but there was a time when that wasn’t the case. The 32-year-old recalls his favorite gift he received when he was 12 or 13, and it was quite an extravagance for his family.

“My parents got me my own television,” Combs recalls to Sony Music Nashville. “They put it in the basement, and they got me an old couch from Goodwill. And, me and my buddies would go down there and they hooked it up to cable, so me and my buddies could watch TV down there and play N64 and do all that stuff. So, that one was pretty neat. I appreciated the sentiment of my parents giving me my own space. That was a really awesome thing. And, I think eventually the TV ended up in my bedroom, so a couple of years that lasted, and then I wanted to have it in the bedroom.”

Combs will likely have plenty of presents under the tree for his son, Tex Lawrence, born in June.

“It’s amazing,” Combs gushed to CMT of being a dad. “It really is. It’s totally different. Your life just completely changes. People say that all the time, and it probably sounds like the most cliche thing in the entire world, but it’s really true. It’s just really like, instantly. Everything’s completely different.”

The North Carolina native admits he is surprised at how well he has taken to parenthood, including adjusting to some aspects that he thought would bother him, but surprisingly do not.

“I’m just not bothered about being covered in someone else’s bodily fluids,” Combs conceded. “Like, I was really worried about that. It’s kind of one of these things where there’s no easing into this … It’s not like you leave the doctor or before you go have the kid, there’s not someone calls and goes, ‘Okay, you’re having this kid (this) month. So every day for the next three days, you got to change a diaper a day, and then it’s going to go up to two.’ It just immediately goes to like eight or nine.”

The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year nabbed the title for the second year in a row in November. He will embark on his World Tour in March, with Riley Green, Lainey Wilson, Flatland Cavalry and Brent Cobb serving as the opening acts for some dates, with Cody Johnson and Lane Pittman taking over opening act duties for some of the overseas dates as well. Find music and tour dates at LukeCombs.com.