I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.