If I Ever Met Dolly Parton For

I Have Writing Songs On My Own For About Six Years.

I Wasn't Born Of A Whistle Or Milked From A Thistle At Twilight No I Was All Horns And Thorns Sprung Out Fully Formed, Knock-kneed And Upright.

The So-called Positive Press Has In Some Ways Been More Difficult To Swallow Than The Negative.

In High School, We Studied A Lot Of Poetical Forms. I Was Really Interested In The Math That Was Involved And The Strange Live Break Ups. That Gave Me A Great Amount Of Respect For A Rhymed Stanza.

Around Eighth Grade I Decided I Wanted To Be A Composer And That's What I Went To College For. Just A Few Years Back, I Switched Out Of Composition And Into Creative Writing So I Could Work With Words.