I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you real….

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train y….

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it fee….

It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product..

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably ….

Well, I got married about two and a half years ago, and that's been a big change in my life..

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something..

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician..

Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love..

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I ….

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play ….

Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing..

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of..

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I'v….

Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing..

It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course..

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else..

I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something..

My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer..

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that..

My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding..