For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.

There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.