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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

I'm a big fan of country music.

I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.

I have always been infatuated with country music.

I've spent a lifetime in love with country music.

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.