Kenny Chesney

Trying to fit in and just trying to... And you succeeded at doing that.

I succeeded at doing that.

But during the time that I released my greatest hits record that had all the radio hits on it, I had about two and a half years of nothing, of not releasing music.

And it afforded me the time to really take my time.

And it was also a period of my life where I was changing.

Well, I went to the Virgin Islands to shoot a video for one of those disposable songs.

And then I spent a lot of time down there.

And all of a sudden, I had a completely different family there and a group of friends that I didn't have anywhere else in the world.

They all had different religious beliefs.

They all had different political beliefs.

They all grew up, nine times out of 10, they were from New England.

And after three or four years of that, I went, wow, you know, not only could I make music for the people that I've been making it for, which fit in this formulaic style that I was doing, this Daryl thing.

I realized, oh, I can make music for these people too.

And all of a sudden, the idea of who I've become, Kenny Chesney, that's where it all started to change.

And it changed stylistically, it changed musically, it changed emotionally, mentally.

All of a sudden, my heart was more open to new experiences.

to new people, to different way of mixing my record, to everything.

And that's where it all changed.

Had I not done that, had I not met all those people, I would probably still be out there doing it at some level, you know?

Yeah.