I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.

My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

Sometimes when you're in a more fast-paced place, with more to see and do, you miss out on things like nature and beautiful, God-made things. They call it "God's country"!

I just have to do prayers and meditation and affirmations to myself as I go throughout the day, and that's the only way I'm able to make it through some days.

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.