when I was on major record labels and we had to do an album a year, the pressure was on, pretty much you’ve got to get it done. My recording life is totally different now, I record what I want to, when I want to, and if I want to. so um I've just got all kinds of ideas and I'm not bound by any one genre of music I've done, a you know? I've done a cowboy album, I've done bluegrass albums, I've done the tribute to Bob Dylan. . . I've got all kinds of ideas in my mind, some of these ideas that we are doing now have been around for a long time, We just never had a chance to do 'em. So I've got enough stuff. You know somebody said Michelangelo, to accomplish what he had planned, he needed to live to be 150 or some- thing like that. Well, that's kinda the way it is with me. I don't plan on living to be 150, but I think it’s great to always have something to do, that's the thing. I think people who lose their vision and have no desire to create and have nothing that excites 'em, I think that’s then you would probably lose your interest in living and just sit down in a rocking chair, ya know? I think that is what happens, and that's fine if people want to do that. I am not knocking anybody who wants to retire, I think some people need to retire, some people don't do things they love as much as I do, some people have health problems and this that, but with me, it's all about the people, it's all about getting on stage one more time, get out there and entertain people and having people enjoy it, that's my life, that's what I'm all about.
I want to ask about your humanitarian work. Tell us a little bit about the Jour- ney Home Project. The Journey Home Project is, our overall mission is helping veterans any way we can, but what we started out as and what we feel, what we still try to throw a lot of our re- sources into is helping our veterans readjust to civilian life. When they come home, espe- cially from war zones. To those of us who are
under initiated in that process, it seems like it would be a pretty simple thing, it'd be like changing jobs to us, moving from one town to another, changing jobs, but it's a lotmore in- volved than that. Of course its a case by case, person by person thing, some people adjust easier than others. But some people, when they come back it’s like, it's hard, it's hard to do, especially with the way that our govern- ment has treated our Vets. Which is another whole story, I don't want to get started on that. They don't really take care of their needs, so I think that we owe our Vets an un- payable debt of gratitude and if there is a need we should try to fill it if we can, so that's what this is all about. We've done things like, good gosh Michael, we've helped people get cars, we've helped people get furniture, we've helped people get an education, whatever we are able to do that meets their needs - that's basically what it's all about.
Is the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veter- ans and Military Family Center con- nected to Journey Home, or is that a different program? No, it is connected to it, in fact, our contribu- tions that were made were from the funds of the Journey Home Project and they decided - I don't know who made the decision, I guess the college people over there, I think maybe the head of the college made the decision to
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