When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

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

I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.

[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.