'After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they
“At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.”