I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!

In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.