What we really need to be open to is diversity itself, especially in a business environment. What you want is a plethora of ideas; you want people with different life experience, people with different work experience, people from different cultures to bring something to the table that you otherwise based on your own coming up, you yourself wouldn't have thought of.

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

There are a lot of people who talk about a formula for being able to start a fan base. But for me, it's been about songs and just being hard on myself as a writer, feeling like there is a purpose to it all.

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.