If I’m honest, one thing that might have pushed me in this direction was that after Car Wheels came out, everybody started lumping me in with Americana or alt-country, and I can’t stand either of those terms, as I said before. They are so limiting. I realize that people were trying to be complimentary, but it still bothered me, so on some level I said to myself, “I’m going to do something different.” That’s just my nature.
