Time management is the hardest thing. It takes a lot more time to do then you realize.

They're all just excellent students and great kids. I wouldn't be surprised if they all go on to the state fair.

You get to see where their passions are. It is kind of fun to see what eighth-grade students are interested in.

We try to get them out into the world, face-to-face.

We've done about a half-dozen of these shows together over the years, and from the first time, it seemed special. It felt comfortable to me, because I was used to sitting around with dad and some of his writer cronies in the living room, playing songs and him reading a couple of poems. I have fond memories of those evenings when we'd be sitting around and I would be asked to play. I might play a Hank Williams song or something like that, and he'd talk about the time he met Hank Williams.

How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.