Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.

When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.

I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.

My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

Sometimes when you're in a more fast-paced place, with more to see and do, you miss out on things like nature and beautiful, God-made things. They call it "God's country"!