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

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

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.

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.

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

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.