My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

Once you get away from where you`re from, you look at it in a different way.

I toured in Europe first, before I did ANY touring in the US. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

I`ve been in LA for 5 years now, and it`s been very freeing creatively.

I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.

Me And The Radio is probably the most directed at my divorce and a turning point in my life to having to make a conscious choice to move on.

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn`t right for me. They`re afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

We play for fun, with LONG guitar solos.

I never listened to country music growing up.

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.

There`s a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.

I`m a big fan of `70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

Any album that I ever put out I`m going to send it to country radio first.

I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It`s all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

It`s my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover.

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

I`m sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.

I also love real estate and decorating.

Our live show is a definite experience, since it`s an extension of my albums.

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.