Occupation: Musician Birth: October 9, 1969
As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville,….
I think I just speak on what the regular people are going through outside of love 'cause, of course, there's always gonna be a love song, but there's….
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'….
Shame is the shadow of love..
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family busi….
But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there..
I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a pla….
I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can..
If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting..
I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer..
I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you..
As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a ….
There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sun….
I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been ve….
I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I ….
I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career wh….
I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter..
I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, ….
I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like ….
In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like, "Okay, well I want to be a songwriter," 'cau….
I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day..