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.

In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like, "Okay, well I want to be a songwriter," 'cause it was like close to Nashville.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.