It's time for artists to take their music back.
Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.
It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.
I love being a gypsy and getting on the bus with the band making sounds for the people who love and enjoy a night of Americana and good times.
So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.
If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.
You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.
I have never had a problem letting a record go.Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them.
Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.
What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.
That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.
I feel like records are moments in time, a modern moment that feels right then and it found its way to us then, that minute. We can all try and repeat records we have made that had success, but it's not possible.
It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.
I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.
I write about what I know.
I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.
I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.
I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.
I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.
I never sing a song more than twice because my fear of waning excitement for a piece is part of my troubles. I so rely on vibe, energy and emotions that the technical part occurs to me last.
I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.
I just don't conform very well.
I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.
I like rules that are broken.
I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.
