When I was a kid, I liked the newer music that was coming out. I have never really felt confined by any style of music. I would play in bands that were soul bands or that played standards - any kind of music that I enjoyed playing.

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals