I love all kinds of different music.

I really enjoy what I do and have been fortunate to pursue basically whatever I'm feeling at the time.

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.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.

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

Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.