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

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.

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

I also love real estate and decorating.

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

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.

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