Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.

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

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

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.

You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.

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.