In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.

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

The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, "It's very you," and that made me feel good.

I feel like they're different creatures, live and in the studio, but that's what makes it so interesting to me. If they didn't have any different shadings or colors, you might as well be a hologram or something.

As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different times, the more right elements of the political spectrum have claimed for their own.