The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away

Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.