and so when james presented me with this i thought yes, why would james paterson even be searching me the book was going to be about, and i knew i really could. >> because you know dolly came out of the hills of tennessee and i came out of sort of a similar situation in upstate new york and the character in the book also, we were both kind of pll to one shots and the character in the book is a million to one shot, very talented, but that doesn't mean you are going to make it. >> but also, her story, everybody has a story when they come to town. everybody has got a past or childhood and how they grew up. and everybody's story is, different, everybody's life is a soap opera. and so it is really about her story, she was running to something, she loved the music but she was running from something, and so i knew that i could write great songs like all the bad people in town, like snakes in the grass, about the bad managers and things, because i have experienced a lot of that myself. >> when we met, like i go back home, and two days later, i had some notes for dolly to react to she sent me