I'll tell you what I'm looking for when I make a recommendation: I want a collaborator.

It's a different thing when I sit down with [Memphis songwriter and longtime collaborator] Keith Sykes or some of my buddies in Nashville. It's more likely that I'll actually make the appointment and I'll have some fun and maybe at the end of the day we'll get a song out of it. But I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually -- usually sometime around 3 in the morning -- I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song.

He always wanted to run a marathon when he was at school. My recommendation was: Give it a few years after you graduate. You have to develop.

Tuesday's audience clapped and cheered when we announced it.

When the chairman made his recommendation at the start of the go-round, the game was up, it was over. Everybody knew what the chairman would be in favor of.

For whatever reason, we were a little tight. When we were relaxed, we played real well, but if a couple things went wrong, the players had a hard time shaking it off and focusing on the next play. Normally, they do very well at that.