I Can Stay On My Boat For

I Felt As A Human Being I Needed To Take A Pause And Reflect On A Lot Of Stuff That's Happened. That Was Really Good For Me. And To Get Some Of The Ringing Out Of My Years From All The Amps On Stage.

Record Labels Today Are Much Less Patient: Artists Have A Bad Record, And They're Gone.

I Can Say That I Don't See Myself With The Foot On The Gas Pedal As Hard As It's Been Down For 16 Years.

An Important Mentor For Me, In Terms Of Teaching Me That There's A Right Way And A Wrong Way To Do Things, Was Probably My Football Coach. And Playing Football Was One Of The First Times In My Life That I Realized Nothing Is Given To You. You Have To Work Really Hard.

My Elementary School Is Still There [in Luttrell, Tennessee]. I Drop By My High School. It's A Small Community. I Say This Every Night Before I Do The Song 'the Boys Of Fall' In The Show - I'm Really Happy About Where I Grew Up And How I Grew Up.