I always knew I wanted to be a musician.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.

I always knew I wanted to be a musician.

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

When you get just that right audience and just that right sound on stage and you can just sit back and kinda just let it happen and it's not really any work. I love those moments. Nothing can beat that for me.