I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.

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.

Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.

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

My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.

I think in the future I will end up doing a gospel album.