I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.