“Those situations were just taking over my entire life. It was fun to write in a way, because it helped me take a really bad situation and a really sad situation and make beautiful songs out of them. When I got half of the song written it was like, "Oh, this is great." It was like the one thing that was making me happy again.” WritingBeautifulSongFunSituationReally SadHappy Again Author:Nicole Atkins
“A lot of love records or breakup records, a lot of the songs can tend to be on the blame side and the bitter side. And this was good for me, writing, because it made me feel like I was forcing myself to be more mature and grow up a little bit. It's not putting the blame on anybody, it's accepting responsibility just as much as the other person.” WritingSongResponsibilityAcceptingGrowing UpBlameBitterBreakupMatureAccepting Responsibility Author:Nicole Atkins
“Even with Neptune City, I feel like if you strip down all the arrangements, I feel like each of my songs is always going to be, at its core, either a country song or a blues song.” CountrySong Author:Nicole Atkins