The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad

A dreamer born is a hero bred.

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.