I never excluded any genre on my first record.

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

How do I tell you what my heart's been telling me?

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've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

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.

There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.