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Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day.

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.

I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there.

I'll be 50 years old and still have to call my mom when I'm home at night. No matter what time, she doesn't sleep until I do!

I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.

With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.

So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of the house now, and I am thrilled when I wake up to not have a cell phone, and feel like today is stretching out in front of me for 1,000 hours, as it seems.