I write about personal experience only because that's all I can do. If people listen to tap into the emotion of a song, how much more real can the emotion be about loving a woman who doesn't love you back so much that it hurts your heart? That was Wasting My Time. And another plea to make her aware that I was the best guy she will ever know. That was I'm The One. Or when I quit drinking (I REALLY needed to do that!), and why I quit. That was Many Years Ago. Second Chance was after the car crash when I realized that you really don't know when your life will end.

If I tried to write songs about other people's lives or mythical things, I couldn't put myself into the situation and the lyrics would not have the sense of sincerity that lyrics need.

As far as Underwood's song, any way you look at it that song promoted domestic violence and because of that song I will never listen to her music again.