I Want To Do Some Fiction Writing,

Society's Child' Was A Real Hard Record To Start With. That's All You Want Is For You To Put Your First Record Out And Have People Screaming At You In The Streets. But It Taught Me Right Away That What I Was Doing Was Valuable And Important.

I Think I Grew Up, Stopped Worrying About What People Thought Of Me, And Whether Things Were Going To Turn Out Ok. I'm Concentrating On Doing The Best Work I Can Do And Letting It Go At That.

I Was Interviewed For A Grammy Television Show, And They Asked Me About Nashville, And I Talked For Three Minutes And When I Finished, I Was Teared Up. The Whole Room Was Crying. Nashville Has Given Me A Home, Where I Never Had A Home Before.

I Write A Lot From Instinct. But As You're Writing Out Of Instinct, Once You Reach A Certain Level As A Songwriter, The Craft Is Always There Talking To You In The Back Of Your Head...that Tells You When It's Time To Go To The Chorus, When It's Time To Rhyme. Real Basic Craft... It's Second Nature.

I See Interracial Couples All The Time In Nashville. I'm A Jew In Nashville. I'm A Gay Person In Nashville. It's A Non-issue In Most Of The Time. That's A Huge Leap Forward.