I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.

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.

Right now I really enjoy writing songs.

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.

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

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.