Down To My Last Dime And Coming

I Think Of Myself As A Serious Artist. Sometimes You Can Get In Your Head Too Much About That And Forget That You Have To Have Fun. I've Been Guilty In My Career About That At Times. But The More I Thought About It, The More I Thought I Didn't Want Anybody Else To Have A Hit With It!

I Grew Up In Louisiana, And I Grew Up With A Dysfunctional Family With Some Very Serious Abuse From My Stepfather, Who Could Be A Very Beautiful Person On One Hand And Be Terrible On The Other, So It Leaves Your Soul Troubled As A Child.

Country Radio Went Through A Time Where They Were Trying To Pigeonhole Everybody, And Trying To Make The Gap Really Narrow, And I Think That They've Opened That Up A Little Bit.

Down To My Last Dime And Coming Apart At The Seams. I'm Messed Up In Mexico, Living On Refried Dreams.

I Think Country Music Is About Honesty. Any Art Has To Have Honesty To Start With, As The Core Of It. I Mean, They're Just Going To Manipulate You In One Way Or The Other, But There Has To Honesty At The Core Of It.