I Would Say, 'go Ask Any Couple

My Dad Started Teaching Me How To Play Guitar When I Was 13 Years Old. When He'd Go To Work, He'd Map Out Guitar Cords On A Piece Of Notebook Paper. I'd Sit Down And Look At It Every Day And Practice While He Was Gone.

My Mom Was A Single Mom, And She Had Enough On Her Plate. I Knew When I Was Doing Something I Wasn't Supposed To, And I Tried To Keep Her From Finding Out About It. I Did A Pretty Good Job Of That.

For Every Album, I Look At Where I'm At In My Career And Think Of A Title That Kind Of Represents That. And For Me, 'night Train' Was Kind Of A Metaphor For Where Things Have Gone, From Being On One Bus With 12 Other Guys, Pulling A Trailer My First Few Years On The Road, To Now. We're Out Here With Six Or Seven Buses And Eight Or Nine Semis.

Capricorn Was One Of The Homes Of The Southern Rock Movement With The Allman Brothers And Charlie Daniels And The Marshall Tucker Band. I Don't Think You Can Come From That Area And Not Be Influenced By That Stuff A Little Bit, No Matter What Generation You Grew Up In.

The Worst Gig Story I Have Is From A Club In Alabama That I Think Is Still Up And Running, So I Won't Name The Name Of The Club. We Got Hired In There To Play, And The Owner Was Pretty Annoying. He Kept Coming Up To Me During The Show And Asking Me To Play 'purple Rain.'