Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.
Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
Country music belongs to America.
Look at my track record: All of the big hits we created in Holland worked globally.
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
I've always wanted to release records in America. That's where I believe the music belongs, and the style and the eclectic musical mix that we put together kind of belongs here.
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.
I knew I was going to do a country album one day. But I was just trying to figure out for the life of me, what we were going to do to make it different, unique.
Before I started writing for myself, I was writing country records, and they were coming out dope.
With streaming services, the walls have come down a bit on genres. So I never really set out to make a country record or a pop record. I just wanted to make it mine.