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.

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.

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

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

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

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

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.