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've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.

Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.

They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.