A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

Hold your head high heavy heart.

I think that a great song needs the full package. I think that a great song needs everything from lyrics, to melody, to music, and it needs to be interesting and it needs take you in and swallow you and swish you around, and then regurgitate you back in better form.

In the recording process I do listen to other artists a lot and other albums and albums I am loving lately, or ones that I still love that came out in the 80s or 70s.

Writing a great song is not a simple task, but I feel like when everything comes together and you sing it in a certain way that no-one else can sing it, when it's written in a certain way that's perfect for the way that you're performing it, that those are the things that make a song great.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.