I feel like 'Nashville' can go on indefinitely.
In Nashville, good guitar players are a dime a dozen.
It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.
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.
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.
There's nothing like Nashville for making records.
One of the great reasons to be in Nashville is, you get guys like Shane McAnally to write songs with.
Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Chicago, we always had it. People just shied away because it's nothing businesswise from the industry. Everybody from Chi will go to N.Y.C. or L.A. - R. Kelly to Kanye to even Twista. Everybody is great from there, but it's nothing downtown.
Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music scene. So we had that factor of being a new discovery.
I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Big time blues and music city. It's always been in my bloodline.
Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.
I lived in Nashville for about five years. It was almost like me going to college for my craft. I immersed myself in the songwriting community there. They embraced me, and I made some real friends but also learned so much.
Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.
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.
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.
It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.
My love of music has been ever-growing, and to live in Music City - I don't want to live anywhere else.
You can't live in Austin and escape the music.
Atlanta is just different. It's the music city.
