The beauty is that it's all a part of this wonderful dream I had in college. It's beautiful to see what it's turned into. It's the journey that I'm most proud of.

I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

I'm all right. I'm good. There has been better times, but I'll be okay.

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.

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

Certain nights, when everything's perfect and we have thousands of people partying their asses off, I break my rule and have a drink onstage. I've never done a show drunk. Well, I take that back. In the early days I did.

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."