you know, my grandfather was from starkville, mississippi, my grandmother was from tuscaloosa, alabama. they moved up in the 1920s. so a lot of my family members were like, "why would you go to mississippi?" you know? but i already had a attachment to it. it was just always in my soul. i never looked at mississippi as a bad place 'cause i always spent time down here. and then as soon as i got here, i felt at home. so a lot of people were like, at first they were like, "river's going crazy. he's going to mississippi." but now they're like, "you're a genius." so i'll take it. i can't talk about anything in my life without talking about the river. and it just basically has been my backyard ever since i was a kid. you know, when i'd go to my grandparents' house, that's the first place i would go down is to the river. then you get caught up in going to high school, and then college, and women and all that stuff. and then i just came back to the river when i moved back to my grandfather's house. you know, i'm sitting on that porch at night, which is a block away from the river, and i'm watch