Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.

It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.