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I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from.

Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

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

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.