'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

Now that I'm in 'Nashville,' the thing that I'm loving the most is co-writing. You walk into the room and you shake hands with someone you've never met before and you walk out four hours later and you've got this thing... sharing ideas and everything, it's almost magical, like a miracle.

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.