The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'

By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people.

Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.

I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.

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.