Lee Greenwood Reflects on His Lowest Point

Lee Greenwood knows the true meaning to the song lyric, "I've been down so low/That the bottom looked like up."

"I'm not easily defeated," Lee notes in his website bio. "I've been at the bottom, and I know I don't like it there." But the singer admits that he isn't just talking about a low point in his career.

"No, no the bottom of life," Lee tells The Boot. "I mean my career started when I was 14 years old playing clubs. I don't think -- even at times when I wasn't working a lot -- I never thought that was the bottom of my career."

Lee reveals his toughest point occurred in Los Angeles. "I went there to make records for Paramount, and we took a shot at a single ... this was like when I was living in Vegas. The record was never released ... produced by Jerry Fuller who was a great singer and producer. It was just a lesson in humility when my career wasn't going to take off that way. I had to go back to Vegas and work my tail off. But as far as personally, I got to feeling so down about life and about myself. It really takes a great deal of grit when [you're down]. I can picture people who get down on themselves because I've been there, and I know what it feels like to be down on yourself."

Asked if he feels that most people have a hard time escaping life without feeling they're at the bottom, Lee says, "Well, it depends on your faith I think, and your internal gut. I am a Christian, and I'm driven by the fact that I know if I continue to walk in the footsteps of my creator, that I will be taken care of. There are ups and downs in everybody's life, I don't care if you're a Christian or not. But I just believe that I have an eternal faith that keeps me alive, and that's what keeps me focused on what's good about life."