he told us when his career began he was living a kind of conventional rock star life partying, drugs, loose women. and then he asked himselff a simple question and that question changed his life forever. in august of nineteen eighty nine when we finally releasedne my first single, not only because this is the shot, this is it and my prayers were answered. not only did the song go top ten but it became the largest selling country music singlesi that warner brothers country music, warner bros. nashvilleil division had ever released. up to that , that s unbelievable. what song was that ? it was song called country club.s i m a member of the country and that immediately when it went when it took off, warner bros. came back in and said we really want youus now.h we ve got tock i rush back inn and we ve got to do a complete album because we want to get this out. you re hot. so we so we want to get something recorded and the rest is sort of history. so of i mean there s so many ques
years at the most. and after that i remember waking up after being up for a couple of days and beingin strung out and justg thinking o myself, you know what you are d about to destroyes everything yu have hadad every every dream that you ve ever had in your life has come true for yous and you are about to destroy this . for what ? for yeah. a momentary pleasurer. it s stupid. how did you get that clarity? on i don t know. it was it was i think a lot of my upbringing probably had a lot to do with that. you know, i knew what i waswa doings and it was wrong from a moral standpoint. butth i also knew that it was i could just seeul the signs ofa and i have a lotd of people