My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like, "Okay, well I want to be a songwriter," 'cause it was like close to Nashville.

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.