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So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.

I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas and emotional textures.

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am.

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.