It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

Take your records, take you freedom, take your memories, I dont need 'em. And take your cat, and leave my sweater, cause we've got nothing left to weather.