Parker McCollum

I mean, just singing at the top of my lungs, ripping on guitar, trying to write this song.

But I've also done it stone cold sober.

There has to be something to it because I've seen firsthand how many times it's worked for me, but it's just like anything else, Bunny.

I mean, it's moderation, especially when you're young and you're doing it and you're trying to go to these places, basically self-sabotage to go write these songs.

It can just get out of hand, and you can start abusing that, and all of a sudden you're not being creative and you're not writing, and you're really just...

Absolutely.

And so I just kind of noticed when that started to happen.

And I was like, all right, what do you really have if you can't do it without it?

And it's weird because I always knew.

Like the whole time I was like aware that I shouldn't be doing that.

It just took a little while for me to be like, all right.

Like, you know, when you're in your 30s, it's not as cool to be messed up all the time.

When you're 24 and you're a songwriter and it's going really well and you're selling out bars in Texas and it's, you know, it's like, it's just kind of expected and accepted.

And so once like, and like Halle Rae, like I'm married now.

I have a child, like Major, my son.

It's like...

what am I going to do?

You know, there'll be self-sabotage, sad dad songwriter.

Like, yes, just only for every now and then for about a week at a time.

I mean, I was trying to write songs when I was like probably 12 years old, 12, 13, something like that.