One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

