But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

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.

I also love real estate and decorating.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

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.

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

I never listened to country music growing up.