The Un-Commonly Common Story Of How One Man Went From Homeless To Worth M…
Being homeless was not my greatest fear. Others fear being homeless, but I was raised in a home where every week we practically faced the prospect of being homeless. You go broke slowly and then all at once. Not our home. We were just always broke as a family and so there was never an ‘all…
Robert Reynolds (former bass player for the Grammy winning group The Mavericks) taught me how to hail a cab. We were in Nashville and had been together in the studio all day. At that time he was married to Trisha Yearwood (now the wife of Garth Brooks – the largest selling artist of all time)…
A blank slate. A white piece of paper. A clean canvas. A large map and a dart. If you could re-make your life, what would you do? If you could go anywhere and survive, where would that be? — I love the idea of reinvention. Starting from scratch all over again in a different place…
My heart was pounding. I was beginning to sweat. My left arm was aching and my chest was tight. I was having a heart attack. I jumped up out of bed and put clothes on as fast as I could. Made my way to the truck and started driving. Hospital, here I come. I knew…
I grew up with a piano in the house. I would go in and clank around on the thing two or three times a week. Just make noise. My mom made me take lessons, after which, I would clank around and just make noise. When I was 15 I was given a guitar by my…