Parker McCollum

And I, and I, you know, those songs changed my life.

They, they gave me the career I have now.

And so I don't regret any of it.

I'm just like, you know, I don't know how entirely necessary it probably was looking, which, you know, hindsight's 2020, but it, you know, there were good times.

It's not, it wasn't bad.

Not really.

You know, like that song, uh, rest of my life that I wrote, um, during COVID, um,

I was dead sober when I wrote that song, like nine o'clock in the morning, got out of the shower, had the melody in my head from the night before and had gone pretty hard the night before and was kind of at that was really, really close to being like, this is like, you're going to blow it, you know, you're going to blow it.

And, uh,

And I didn't want to do that.

I really always wanted to make my family very proud.

And I just never wanted to embarrass them or go do... I felt a lot of pressure to kind of clean it up and handle it the right way.

And I didn't want to get to be like 40 and 50 years old one day and be like, oh man, he was doing it for a little while.

He really had it.

And so I just kind of became super aware of that kind of stuff.

And it just...

That's a long-winded way of saying not really, but I'll take an Adderall to write songs sometimes, and that gets me super into it.

Because you can focus.

Yeah, and it makes me emotional and super and just passionate and engaged about a melody that I've created on the guitar, and I will just...

I mean, I'll be by myself.