For my band's debut tour in 2011, we road-tripped across the country in a 15-passenger van. It was the first time I'd left Alabama. I drove through scenery I'd only ever seen in calendars: auburn leaves falling in Vermont, the sun setting over purple mountains in Arizona. It was incredible.

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

Oh, wow! Being in the playoffs for the first time ... it's an incredible feeling.

I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

I've had some terrible jobs, but working in a kitchen at Cracker Barrel is probably the worst I've ever had. I was a grill cook - awful! It wasn't the smell, it was the people. The music, too. We had to be 'country fresh,' so they played this terrible country music eight hours during the shift. It was a bleak existence - a very dark time.

The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.