I don't really drink before a show. That's my only drinking rule. Especially with today's cell-phone cameras, there's no win to it.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

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

I love being able to say a quick thanks to the man above for the music and the fact that we're even in this spot. If you'd told me this in college when I was sitting on a stool and playing for enchiladas and tips, I'd have bet everything against it.

Its five o'clock some where

There were years of that stuff that will never leave me. Never. When the bus turned a million miles - that's a lot of traveling. It's really cool to think about. I'm blessed to have traveled a million miles on a tour bus.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.