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

I'm glad I've learned what I've learned when I learned it.

It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.

Well, I got married about two and a half years ago, and that's been a big change in my life.

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.

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

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