Actress

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.