I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
When I got to Nashville, people started asking me about how I got into country music. I'd tell them I came from a place where people wore cowboy hats for a real reason.
I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing that has always been there, that has never ever left me, has been country music.
I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
I was signed to RCA to be a country singer.
I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.
As soon as I got into country music, it was like hook, line and sinker. I was so focused on country, I ended up leaving all those '80s hair-band CDs behind - which now I still wish I had, but I was done with it.