The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.
Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.
I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.
I enjoy hard work, I love setting goals and achieving them.
Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.