Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.
If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.
Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.
But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.
Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.
It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.
Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.
My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.
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.
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.
When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.
During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.
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.
My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer.
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.
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.
I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.
It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.
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 think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.
I think in the future I will end up doing a gospel album.
I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.
I really enjoy what I do and have been fortunate to pursue basically whatever I'm feeling at the time.
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