Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

They had been putting both girls through private school. And Tessa was a black belt in judo, and she had to go to national events all the time. They had just gotten back from a competition in Hawaii.

Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I've known them for 20 years almost. I've written songs with, produced songs with them a lot of times. I don't deviate form my comfort zone. I feel like when God brings people to you, it's good to keep 'em around.

I grew up Southern Baptist. In the Bible Belt.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.