When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.

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?

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

I love to read things that have moral messages, and I love to hear stories where it's not just a hook, you have to follow the story, you have to listen to the message of the song, and get it and use it in your everyday life.

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.

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.

Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.