My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.

It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.

I feel so blessed, and God has been so good to me.

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

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.