I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

Just when I think it couldn't get any bigger, 'Tuskegee' reaches a new level of success.

Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.