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.

I opened up my mind as far as playing music. I was at a Cody Chesnutt concert a few years ago, and a friend introduced me to him. We just started talking about music, and he asked me what I did. I said, "I have these songs and I'm kind of nervous to put them out, because I've just kind of been playing blues stuff, and playing other people's songs." He said, "You should just put them out there, man. Why not? It's just gonna bother you if you don't. The easiest thing to do is to just let it go." So I just took that with me.

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.

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

I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.

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