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.

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

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

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

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

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.