I Write All Year, And At The

My Daddy Served In The Army Where He Lost His Right Eye, But He Flew A Flag Out In Our Yard Until The Day That He Died. He Wanted My Mother, My Brother, My Sister And Me, To Grow Up And Live Happy In The Land Of The Free.

And Yet This Is Farther Than I've Ever Fell; You Know Me Much Too Well. Funny It Don't Feel Like We Just Met. It Didn't Take Much Time. Forever's More Than Crossed My Mind, And We Haven't Even Said 'i Love You' Yet.

My First Gig, I Was About 17 Or 18. But I'd Been Singing A Long Time. I Got A Guitar When I Was 8, And Started Trying To Write Songs As A Teenager.

If I Hear A Conversation And Somebody Says Something Intriguing, My First Thought Is, Is That A Song? I Write All Year Long, And At The End Of The Year I Pull These Forty Or Fifty Things Out And Say Which Of These Things Do I Want To Record.

I'd Had My Whole Life To Write My First Album. I Had My No. 1 And My Third Single Out, And They Go, 'hey, Guess What? We Need To Start Recording The Next One.' I'm Like, 'uh Oh, I Got To Write Another Album. Well, How Am I Gonna Write 'should've Been A Cowboy' And 'ain't Worth Missing' And All That Again?' It Took Me Forever To Write The First One.