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

I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.

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.

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?

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

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