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

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

If you went to school in Nashville, you were aware of all those '60s rockabilly people.

She concedes that she's the one she pleases.

There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.