I'm glad I've learned what I've learned when I learned it.
I'm glad I didn't know certain things earlier, because then it wouldn't be any fun.
I wanted to have something that I was proud of and that I knew people would enjoy.
I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.
I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something.
I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.
I didn't just want to put something out that I wasn't satisfied with.
I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.
My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever give that up.
I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.
I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.
My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.
Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.
I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.
I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.
Right now I really enjoy writing songs.
Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.
I always knew I wanted to be a musician.
And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.
You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.
Yeah, but Jesus is the most important thing to me and I want to be bold about it.
With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.
When you get just that right audience and just that right sound on stage and you can just sit back and kinda just let it happen and it's not really any work. I love those moments. Nothing can beat that for me.
Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.
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