My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever ….

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

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..

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

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

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

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 ….

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 ….

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….

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 ….

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..

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

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

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….

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

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

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

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my fi….

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever..

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….