I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

A lot of times, Im singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick - as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.'

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.

I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me

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