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.

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

I never listened to country music growing up.

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

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.

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