Tom's Country View

"When you're making music you hope that the listener doesn't have any preconceived notions about you and what you do, or the style of music, or the genre of music, or anything. You hope that they just clear their mind, put the music on, listen to it with an open mind." (Sam Hunt / thefader.com, November 23, 2014)

"There’s something poetic about a 39-year-old man winning new artist of the year. I don’t know where you’re at in your life or what you’re going through, but I want to tell you to keep going, baby. I want to tell you, success is on the other side." (Jelly Roll /  CMA Awards, November 8, 2023)

"This. What is this? This is what I want to do.’ And he was like, ‘No one’s doing that.’ Cool! That’s a good thing! So to help me, we would take old country songs and put a soul twist on them, or we would take old soul songs and put a country twist on them." (Kassi Ashton / people.com, October 11, 2019)

"But I’m ten years in now, I’ve got two kids, and at 43 years old, I want to say some different stuff. So that’s how you get songs like 'Numb' and 'Loved Them First'. Whereas those songs have been weeded out before because they weren’t brand-consistent with the party country guy thing. "   (Tim Hicks / halifaxpresents.com, November 9, 2022)