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

My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

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.

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.

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.

I grew up being a huge fan of Bruce Lee, and this quote always stuck out to me. He said, "Water can flow, or it can crash. If you put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot." It always made sense to me to adapt the flow and roll with whatever the situation is and to not think about it too much and get caught up in it. It works easier for me that way.