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I had no idea when I moved to Nashville people just were songwriters. I had no idea. So I guess I was selling myself as a singer when I first moved here. But then right after I first moved, I started writing a lot.

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I've been writing since I came to Nashville when I was 17. I've been blessed to have written with so many of the biggest names around. They took me under their wing and taught me the ways of writing. They saw something special in me, which feels great. Every song on my record is going to be original, and that's just a really cool feeling.

I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.

I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.