As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.
Tonight I'm the designated drinker.
You just write about things that happen.
A country song is a song about life.
I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing.