 I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio. |
| You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one. |
| I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music. |
| It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation. |
| I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think. |
| Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop! |
| I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does. |
| It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long. |
| My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it. |
| They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio. |
| It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record. |
