No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.
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 never excluded any genre on my first record.
But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.
Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.
The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.