Carly Pearce

I feel like in a lot of ways he helped me

find my voice obviously as Carly Pierce, but also just like as a human, like he reinforced to me that like I was enough and he was diagnosed with glioblastoma brain cancer.

When we were finishing, the last song he ever worked on was I Hope You're Happy Now.

And that's super special for me.

But he was diagnosed and died very, very quickly after.

But I got to see him like days before he passed.

And we had this beautiful conversation.

And he said to me, he was sitting in his bed and I'll never forget it.

And I think it's so important for people

that have success to understand this.

He said, he looked at his clock and he was like, you see that right there?

And I was like, yeah.

And he said, I can buy anything in the world except the one thing that I need and that's time.

And-

in so many ways, I feel like he's, he told me that day, he was like, I just want you to fly and I want you to know you can.

And I mean, I've been working on a lot of new music and I feel like that voice has been in my head because it's not been, you know, an easy, even like getting to this place in your career.

It's like, there's ups and downs and like, it's tough.

But I think remembering why I started this in the first place and the dream that I had as a kid has continued to make me understand

I can fly and I can do this and make music because of that girl that was growing up in Taylor Mill, Kentucky.

Like, and he's, he's that voice in my head.