that earlier, it's a big journey and i think i learned a lot about myself as well. and god was trying to tell me how strong i am as my own person, you know, and bring myself out of some times where i didn't think i'd make it through. we've all been there in our lives where we feel like we have to beat ourselves up to get somewhere. at one of the things where if you stare yourself in the mirror long enough you say i have a future ahead of me i need to keep my nose to the grind stone. that's what i know in my faith. >> do you know how great it is to know that in something like the country music business that can eat you alive. >> yeah, and i feel a lot of people are lost. dude, if you go every single day feeling like life is going to beat you up, if you go every day thinking, man, lord, i feel like i'm not doing something right, man, just live your life how you feel. ain't none of us perfect, we might drink a little bit, we might cuss a little bit it's fourth of july we're going to have a party.