People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, "Okay, I want to do that."

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

[Writing] has helped me meet people.