I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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.
