Sam Palladio

“I could easily make Nashville a permanent home.”

“As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.”

“I like to sit and listen to conversations here in Nashville. Not in a weird, stalker-ish way. I wander around Tennessee and find myself in little bars just zoning in.”

“You do get used to the ups and downs, the rejection of auditions and not getting parts, and so when you do get a job, it feels really special, and you try to hold onto it for as long as you can.”

“The entertainment industry, in particular, is all about communication and being aware of what's going on, which can take over an actor's life.”

“My taste is very '70s, like Garfunkel and James Taylor, so not too far from country, but not really the mainstream country that's on the radio.”

“My grandpa has always been the tech-savvy one of the family.”

“In real life, if you really enjoy somebody's company, and you have a great time with them, and then you're supposed to - becoming two lovers who are having a great time in their own fictional world, I think it bleeds into reality and vice versa.”

“Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.”

“The Hollywood actor business can be a little shallow and can be a little more of a facade, and Nashville and the South, people are genuine and real, so if I can be based out there and go off to Hollywood to do a film or do another TV show and then fly back to Nashville, I'd be set.”

“I love working with Chris Carmack - he's a really, really good friend of mine.”

“I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!”

“I hear stories of kids trying to swipe left or right on books - we have to rein that back a bit and not become drones ourselves. The more we embrace it, the more machine-like we risk becoming.”

“I trained as a classical actor in London for three years. We did Tennessee Williams and dialect and accent classes; they were one of my favorite things to do each week. And we'd strip it down to the phonetics and listen to the sound. It was a really interesting way to look at it all.”

“My dad played guitar, and so there were always guitars kicking around the house that I was never allowed to touch. My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.”

“My love of music has been ever-growing, and to live in Music City - I don't want to live anywhere else.”

“I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.”

“I've always tried to stray towards characters who are way more faceted than your standard leading man role, and I've been fortunate to play some parts who have this awkward tension to them.”

“I feel people can relate to the struggling artist a little more sometimes than the big million-dollar country stars.”

“I love goofing off and being awkward. I have always enjoyed improv.”