Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

I was really influenced by a lot of Disney soundtracks, because that's what I used to watch all the time, and they always put music in it, which is why I tend to have popular melodies over harder beats.

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.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...