I Have A Great Family, I Live

You Have To Know When To Strike And When To Retreat.

There's A Lot Of Craft In Songwriting. The Divine Inspiration Is When The Idea Comes. It May Be A Riff. It May Be A Word. It May Be A Phrase. It May Be A Title. Sometimes, In The Best Of Both Worlds, That Divine Inspiration Extends Through The Whole Song. I've Literally Sat Down And Written A Song From Beginning To End, Almost Complete Lyrics And Everything Without Ever Stopping...in Two Minutes. The Chorus Of 'she's Gone' Was Like That.

The First Record I Bought Myself Could Have Been 'oh Lonesome Me' By Don Gibson Or 'wake Up Little Susie' By The Everly Brothers.

I Didn't Come To Nashville To Put On A Cowboy Hat And Pretend To Be A Country Singer. My Attraction To Nashville As Music City Is The Variety And Flexibility: The Fact That There's So Many Musicians At Your Disposal, So Many Amazing Studios And Talented People That You Can Draw From. ... I Try To Be Myself, But At The Same Time I'm Learning A Lot, And I'm Pulling From Not Only From The Well Of Inspiration That I'm Getting From Nashville, But I'm Pulling From My Roots.

In Our Relationship, We Don't Have That Situation. I Don't Require What He Needs, And He Doesn't Require What I Need. I Know What I Do; I Have An Amazing Life That Nobody Knows About.