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" What I'm trying to do is tell good stories through music. I think some of the best songs, the best country songs, are stories. "

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" For me, I guess music has always been the through-line. You know, I played guitar from a really young age, and my dad played, and my cousin gave me a drum kit when I was 13, and I played bass guitar, so, you know, it was definitely always in the house. "

" My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me. "

" My grandpa has always been the tech-savvy one of the family. "

" My love of music has been ever-growing, and to live in Music City - I don't want to live anywhere else. "

" I feel people can relate to the struggling artist a little more sometimes than the big million-dollar country stars. "

" The entertainment industry, in particular, is all about communication and being aware of what's going on, which can take over an actor's life. "

" My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings - local and international. "

" The Hollywood actor business can be a little shallow and can be a little more of a facade, and Nashville and the South, people are genuine and real, so if I can be based out there and go off to Hollywood to do a film or do another TV show and then fly back to Nashville, I'd be set. "

" I hear stories of kids trying to swipe left or right on books - we have to rein that back a bit and not become drones ourselves. The more we embrace it, the more machine-like we risk becoming. "

" Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing. "

" I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy. "

" You do get used to the ups and downs, the rejection of auditions and not getting parts, and so when you do get a job, it feels really special, and you try to hold onto it for as long as you can. "

" My taste is very '70s, like Garfunkel and James Taylor, so not too far from country, but not really the mainstream country that's on the radio. "

" In real life, if you really enjoy somebody's company, and you have a great time with them, and then you're supposed to - becoming two lovers who are having a great time in their own fictional world, I think it bleeds into reality and vice versa. "

" I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! "

" I could easily make Nashville a permanent home. "

" I grew up in the Southwest of the U.K., on the coast in Cornwall. I used to keep a marine fish tank outside the house, where we would go down to the tide pools and catch fish and crabs. I think I caught a cuttlefish once. "

" I trained as a classical actor in London for three years. We did Tennessee Williams and dialect and accent classes; they were one of my favorite things to do each week. And we'd strip it down to the phonetics and listen to the sound. It was a really interesting way to look at it all. "

" If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again. "

" I love goofing off and being awkward. I have always enjoyed improv. "

" I'd love to do a collaboration with an Ellie Goulding or a female English artist - Laura Marling or something. Somebody cool that I could have a good vibe with and maybe sing a duet with. "

" As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music. "

" I'm 6'2 - but 6'3 with a little heel on, like the cowboy boots. "

" My dad played guitar, and so there were always guitars kicking around the house that I was never allowed to touch. My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up. "