know, for 44 years i got to do what i love to do. i get paid for a hobby, you know. and, you know, my when i was a little bitty kid, my mom and dad used to listen to country music. i m talking about hank williams, george jones, merle haggard, conway, loretta, ray price. we re starting to lose a lot of those legends, you know. but i can remember being 4, 5 years old learning those songs. believe it or not, i can also remember when i was about 5 years old when george jones sang a song, i could feel that song, even though i was a little kid. and i hadn t lived those stories yet. i call george the king of country soul, you know. i could just feel that natural tear in his voice. and i know a lot of singers, heard a lot of singers in my life that had that natural tear.