We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music City is the variety and flexibility: the fact that there's so many musicians at your disposal, so many amazing studios and talented people that you can draw from. ... I try to be myself, but at the same time I'm learning a lot, and I'm pulling from not only from the well of inspiration that I'm getting from Nashville, but I'm pulling from my roots.

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.