I wanted to have something that I was proud of and that I knew people would enjoy.

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.

Yeah, but Jesus is the most important thing to me and I want to be bold about it.

I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something.

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

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.