As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville, and I met my managers in L.A. at a convention randomly. And then, it kinda just started from there. And then, I got my publishing deal.

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

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