The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about.

Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.

If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.

Just like dust, we settle in this town.

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

Obviously, I dont live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like theres definitely something to it.

The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?