I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Texas is really special in that we have our own music scene, our own music chart. It's almost a genre on its own. It feels like you can make a great living just touring the state because it's so big, but eventually, I wanted a new challenge.
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
Texas is where I found my musical self.
I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'
But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.
Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.
I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.
The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.
And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.
Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.