I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.
As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.
The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.
When I first started, you could go to a college campus and it was not cool to wear a country artist's shirt on campus. It was taboo, and there was a stigma involved. In the time from then till now, I'm amazed at how much things have changed. It's young now, it's cool, it's hip
I'm not a trust-fund type.
The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.