With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.

I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics.

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

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.

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

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

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.