I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.

In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.

After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but so does time on. At least the pressure wasn't coming from outside.