But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.
Tonight I'm the designated drinker.
I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song. . . somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.
Winning is a drive, it's a thing that you feel like when I go to bed at night I go to sleep.
The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.
The old footage of my dad, I always knew we were cut from the same cloth, because my dad was such a renegade and always marched to the beat of his own drum. To see where we were both dancing and being silly together, it's too beautiful for words. I was really happy to have that.