Things Use To Be Real Nice, Til

I Feel An Obligation To Those People Who Are Willing To Go Lay Their Lives On The Line. These Are The Same People That When We Call On Them, And We 100 Percent Agree As A Country ... In Our Lifetime There's Gonna Be An Event Take Place ... Just Like When 9/11 Happened, Everybody Wanted To Bring Them To Justice. When We Called On The Troops, They Went In.

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.

I've Written 90 Percent Of The Songs In My Career, On All My Albums.

I Was Raised In Bars. My Grandmother Had One, And When I Was 12 Years Old I'd Go Stay With Her And That's Where I Got To Watch Her Band Play -- She Had A Seven Or Eight-piece Band, And I Would Sit In The Kitchen And Peek Through The Door. I Was Kind Of A 12-year-old Bottle Washer.

The Iraq War Has Thrown Such A Heavy Shadow On Afghanistan That You Can't Hardly Get Any News About That Now. I Went To Afghanistan This Year And Spent More Time There Than I Did In Iraq ... Just 'cause They Were Forgotten About, And I Wanted Them To Know That I Appreciated It.