A Country Song Is A Song About

Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning On That September Day?

You Just Write About Things That Happen.

I Think I've Always Approached Making Albums Pretty Much The Same Way. I'm Just Looking For A Mixture Of Songs And Topics That Aren't The Same Thing Over And Over.

"after 17" Is A Song I Wrote When My First Daughter Went To College, So That's Kind Of Where I'm At In That Part Of My Life. If You Listen To That Song And Knew Anything About Me, You'd Say, "oh Yeah, He Wrote That About His Daughter," But I Try Not To Write Them That They Are So Specific That They Wouldn't Apply To Anybody That Has A Child.

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.