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

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 couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

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

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.

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