My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.

I've always been very interested in the visual aspect of what I do.

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.

I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, "Okay, I want to do that."