When the royalties started coming in for Honky Tonk Badonkadonk, did you splurge on anything?
I splurged on a lot of things! [laughs] But seriously, we were here for three years before we had that big check come in. So we’d all accumulated a lot of bills. So that song got us back up to even. And with the money leftover after that, I didn’t really splurge on anything in particular, I just had a lot of fun! [laughs] Where were you when you got the call that David Letterman wanted you to sing on his show? I actually got an email from my manager, Nick. All it said was, ‘You’re confirmed for David Letterman on August 28.’ And I just looked at it and thought, ‘This is bulls—.’ I thought he was playing a joke on me. I mean, I didn’t even have a song on the Top 40 and never had. There was no reason for me to be on the show. Besides, Letterman rarely has country artists on that show. So for me, this unheard of artist, I couldn’t fathom it. I even felt guilty about it. But I wouldn’t have felt confident about it had he (Letterman) himself not asked me to come do the show. Who impressed
