I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.

'Long Black Train' was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle of nowhere. I could see people standing out to the sides of this track watching this train go by. As I was walking, experiencing this vision, I kept asking myself, 'What does this vision mean and what is this train?'

I haven't always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.