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

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

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 don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.

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.