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

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 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.

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

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

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.

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.