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Well, I don\u2019t mean to keep returning to this, but I\u2019m a little struck by how you are done with your hometown. And I remember you ran for city council several years back; there\u2019s actually a movie about that. <\/strong><\/p>\n Do you think it\u2019s just that you\u2019ve grown and you moved on, or is it about the Panhandle or is it about Texas in general? What else would you say?<\/strong><\/p>\n I would say leaving Amarillo, the reason why I feel like I can\u2019t return, is Amarillo provided me endless inspiration. I think it\u2019s a very interesting place and there\u2019s so much you can pull from it. But it\u2019s place that I think you can only pull so much inspiration from it until you reach a point where there\u2019s no longer inspiration.<\/p>\n And it can be dark. I mean, Amarillo is an island and it can be a black hole of sorts, especially if you\u2019re an artist or a creative person. I won\u2019t beat around the bush. I love Amarillo, but I have to be honest about the realities of it. It is not an art or music city, and it could be very lonely there, especially for me over the years.<\/p>\n I always joked that, why is Paris in my Spotify monthly top cities, but Amarillo never has been? And that was always the nature of it. I pulled the inspiration from there, but I had to recognize that it was not a place conducive to making art long term.<\/p>\n The best thing you can do with Amarillo is take what you can from it and get out before it starts taking from you.<\/p>\n Well a lot of Panhandle refugees have found themselves in Austin or in Dallas. Do you think it\u2019s the nature of the High Plains that Oklahoma City felt like a more natural fit, or was there something going on there that that especially drew that to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, I think I\u2019ve always liked Oklahoma City. I think it\u2019s a very, very interesting city. It\u2019s obviously quite a bit bigger than Amarillo, so there\u2019s more to do, but it was a change of pace. I didn\u2019t want to be recognized at the grocery store as the guy who ran for city council. You know, that\u2019s kind of a tough thing where it\u2019s like, sometimes I like to be private.<\/p>\n But Oklahoma City is far different than Austin because Austin\u2019s kind of obviously a strange place, it\u2019s different than the rest of Texas. But I liked Oklahoma City because it still has the elements of Amarillo I like. There\u2019s something very modest and low-key and plain about it. And the people feel more like Amarillo people.<\/p>\n I still need that kind of down-to-earth normalcy of Amarillo, and a place like Oklahoma City still provides that, where maybe a place like Austin or Dallas or Houston, they wouldn\u2019t really provide that feeling. They\u2019re a bit too crazy for me.<\/p>\n I understand what you mean. You learned recently you\u2019re gonna be a daddy. Do you wanna talk about that at all and maybe how that changes how you view your art?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, it\u2019s so, so wild that me and my wife \u2013 we recently returned from a six-week tour of Europe. It was a very long, long tour, but a few weeks in, we found out my wife is pregnant. Very, very exciting.<\/p>\n But I mean, definitely a lot of feelings. You don\u2019t expect to find that out while on tour, especially in Europe. And it was a crazy busy tour. And you\u2019re too busy to even have a moment to sit down and fully process this huge life-changing thing.<\/p>\n And, you know, I\u2019m still on tour right now. I\u2019m currently in the middle of a seven-week run of the U.S. and Canada. So I\u2019ve effectively been on tour from August all the way to Dec. 6, which is the final show. So this tour is strange because I\u2019m playing songs from three albums that represent my 20s \u2013 essentially a decade span \u2013 while now I\u2019m in my 30s, waiting to get home to what now feels like an entirely different life, new future waiting for me.<\/p>\n So I\u2019m currently in this limbo between my two different worlds, my past and my future. I\u2019m truly in-between them while on tour. So it\u2019s a crazy feeling \u2013 very, very strange feeling \u2013 but it\u2019s made me kind of lean further into these songs where I\u2019m telling stories of who I used to be and where I\u2019m from, while looking ahead to what\u2019s to come and all of these exciting things.<\/p>\n Me and my wife are over the moon, so happy, but I\u2019m not going to lie \u2013 I\u2019m excited to get home and sit down in silence and process this. You know, I\u2019m 31 years old and this is the first child me and wife will have. And it\u2019s huge. 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