It's usually drawing on personal experience. I don't think I could dig deep enough trying to get into somebody else's life. Like 'Far From Me' - I wrote it about this waitress that I was dating when I was fifteen or so, and she broke up with me.
All the girls over there in Ireland are well versed in American country music. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline are like king and queen over there.
If some part of the review is true, those are the ones that sting.
My music has been called so many different things over the years. I figure as long as it's selling, call it what you want.
I was a mailman walking in the snow six days a week, 12-hour days. Every two weeks, I'd get a check for $228.
As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.