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" A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else. "
Think
Respect
Play
" Albums are chapters. They're part of a story. "
Albums
Chapters
Story
" All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could. "
Shape
Music
Knew
" All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe. "
Enough
Band
Family
" All the people I hung out with were musicians. "
Out
Musicians
Hung
" Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story. "
You
Afraid
Stage
" Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time. "
Hours
Fly
Go
" As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right. "
Care
Think
You
" Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in. "
Country
You
Connection
" Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also what I love. Musically, I'm always finding my way home. "
Listening
Guitar
Home
" Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes into SnapSeed, and I start editing it. I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool. "
Picture
Time
Cool
" Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done. "
Growing
Growing Up
Learning
" I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter. "
Development
Wonder
Older
" I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time. "
Time
I Am
Fan
" I am blessed beyond belief. "
Am
Belief
I Am Blessed
" I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar. "
Learning
Guitar
Theory
" I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations. "
Chance
Meet
I Am
" I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know? "
Believe
Work
Start
" I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. "
Shy
Best
Embrace
" I don't believe in making a record and rushing it. "
Record
Believe
Making
" I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me. "
Think
Along
Even
" I don't have a girlfriend. I don't know if I have a type, but I really like girls who are driven. I really care about music, so I like it when a girl really cares about something too. Whatever it is they are into, I'll be their biggest fan. "
Girl
Fan
Care
" If I could make noise with anything, I was going to. "
Noise
Anything
Going
" I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard. "
Work
You
Work Hard
" I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange 'cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. "
Strange
Now
Myself
" I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend. "
Age
Music
Hope
" I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around. "
Gear
Around
Music
" I like driving around town and listening to new records. "
Listening
New
Town
" I love driving. I've been obsessed with driving something since I was a kid. "
Something
Love
Kid
" I love flying planes. "
Love
Flying
I Love
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