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I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

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

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

I have always been infatuated with country music.

I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

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

If you got in my truck, you were listening to country music, and that's the way it was for a long time. I'm a little more open to other sources of music now, a lot more. But for the formative years, I was just very into country.

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.

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.