I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.

I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

"After 17" is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, "Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter," but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.