I Couldn't Wait To Grow

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.

My Mustache Has Become This Weird Iconic Representation Of A Certain Era.

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

There's All Sorts Of Soul. There's Irish Soul And Native American Soul. If It Touches You And Moves You, It's Soul.

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.