I went to the middle of nowhere, this town of 7,000 people, this totally random thing to do, but that's where I met two of the other three guys in the band. It's one of those things that tells me everything happens for a reason.

A lot of people think of Omaha as being out in the middle of nowhere and being a flat desert. That's not the case. It's hilly. It's generally lush and green [with] lots of trees in town.

out in the middle of nowhere.

So, this is New Hampshire.

Sometimes I try to listen to songs a couple years ago just to bring myself back to that place before all this happened and got so crazy. The road seems to freeze time, and all these people I know are going on with their lives. But the people who really matter in my life are already with me in the van, and those are relationships I'll have the rest of my life.

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.