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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.