“Nashville is a boys' club of redneck conservative ideas. But they're r...” — Shane McAnally Quote

Nashville is a boys' club of redneck conservative ideas. But they're ready to embrace gay people. I never felt for one second that someone was judging me. Some people are like, 'Oh, I love gay people' in that 'I have lots of black friends' kind of way. It's awkward, but you have to appreciate that they're trying.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.

I wake up every day thinking, 'I just can't do it anymore.' There's nothing left to say, and I'm completely dry. And then I get in the room with somebody and they say the right thing, and I'm on again.

I'm awkward around girls.

I feel like a lot of creative people are socially awkward.

I can't imagine doing a DJ set and playing all my own stuff; it'd just be awkward.

Intimate scenes are always super awkward - and that is the truth. I know everybody says it, but it really is true.

It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.