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?

If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we'll have a unique song by the end of it.

I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is.

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

Just like dust, we settle in this town.

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.

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