Jamie Lynn Spears Quotes

I fell in love with Nashville and wrote with some of the best songwriters here.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

I had no idea when I moved to Nashville people just were songwriters. I had no idea. So I guess I was selling myself as a singer when I first moved here. But then right after I first moved, I started writing a lot.

One of the great reasons to be in Nashville is, you get guys like Shane McAnally to write songs with.

The thing about Nashville that's amazing is everyone plays... so you don't meet up for a drink, you meet up for a pick. It's an incredibly creative town, just bubbling with energy.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.

Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.

There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

I think probably songwriters are gonna be the toughest critics... I think of it as a community. And we all sort of feed off of each other.

The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music.

Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

When I started out, I was what they called corny. After a week in Nashville they were calling me hillbilly.

In Nashville, good guitar players are a dime a dozen.

In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.

I wanted to become a better songwriter, so it seemed like a no-brainer to move to Nashville, where some of the best writers in the world live.

I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.

I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?

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 wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.

Several years ago, I was asked by a songwriter's association to go to Nashville - I think it involved some kind of award - and be part of the showcase. It was myself and Stevie Winwood and Michael McDonald and then some country people that I didn't know. The whole community was just so welcoming to me.

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.