You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.