It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age.

I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.

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

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

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

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.