(gactv.com) Tracy hit No. 1 with "Find Out Who Your Friends Are," a song featuring his longtime friends Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney. "I think I'm back," Tracy tells The Tennessean. "I do. I feel very strongly about that." Tracy, who sought counseling after being convicted of a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from a marital quarrel in 1998, says he accepts full responsibility for his self-destructive past and has no ill will for those in the industry who dropped him. "The divorces in my life have been the most dark times in my life, and I made a lot of mistakes in that period," he says. "A lot of people were hurt by my actions. I hurt a lot of the fans that followed me. I lost the respect of my industry. I destroyed myself personally and professionally. It's been a personal mission of mine to get back to where I am now. It feels very good to be embraced by the industry again." Tracy says it was his lifelong passion for country music that kept him going. "I have a great deal of determination, and I've always believed we would get back to this place," he says. "I believed in getting to this moment as much as I believed in myself the first time I ever rolled into Nashville." Tracy is working on an autobiography that will probably be released simultaneously with his next album. "It's got to include all of the dark periods in my life," he says, "and coming full circle and coming out the other side. I want the book to be a story of hope and not despair. I want to get people to believe that no matter what you've done in your life, no matter how many times you've fallen down, if you want to succeed and get your life back on track, you can." 
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