I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

I feel like I am beginning to be a part of a musical community, but I wouldn't say I'm a country artist because I wouldn't want to invalidate anybody else or to even begin to be so preposterous as to think I can just skate into town and get some fans.

God, I felt like hell tonight, tears of rage I cannot fight.

So what if right now everything is wrong?

I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.