I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics.

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.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

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.

Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.

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.

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.