I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.

I can't believe the ignorance there, so I don't allow it to affect my life, I don't allow it to come into my zone, and it's not in my world, really.

Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.

I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.

When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains.

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.