I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

I learned from my mom that you should always try to enjoy life, no matter what.

I'm glad I took that time to work really hard on the music. I feel the effects of that now in a positive way with my connection with the audience.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

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.

One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got.