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.

James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

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.

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.

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.

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.