Craig Morgan

And I'm not going to say that it wasn't.

I may be in a bit of denial.

But for me, I don't know that music was an outlet as much as it was a way for me to...

communicate with other people.

In groups like this, I do really well.

I don't like the big 60,000.

When we do those shows, I'm nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

I can't hardly stand it.

But, you know, smaller groups, I love that.

And I love talking to people.

I love hearing people's thoughts.

And I love affecting people's attitudes.

I love having the ability to make someone who might be feeling like absolute shit that day smile.

Or I love knowing that I can make someone think of something special and they tear up.

And that's what music did for me.

It gave me that.

And in the Army, when you had time down, for me it was just a way to kill some time.

I wasn't a songwriter then.

I was writing songs, but I wasn't really a songwriter.

I don't think I really started really writing songs until I came back home and started writing songs.