always something i've balanced my career. proud that i can say i started as a blue collar musician in the trenches of writing songs and being there. >> i have to ask you this. last week, somehow, you ended up performing on the carnival "dream," one of the carnival cruise ships with a lot of problem. it was stuck in part in st. maarten. how did you end up on that? >> interestingly enough, the day o off, second morning, i was watching cnn, looking at the tv, wow, there is another carnival ship. must have been 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning. 12:00, 1:00, i get a call from the publicist, the senior vice president from carnival, they really wanted to do things that were special for everybody on