To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
