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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind.

I had never been to Texas. I'd been through Texas, but I'm so glad to be back in a place that's not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, it's rich and saturated in American-ness.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.