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 think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.
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.
It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.
I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.
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.
During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.
When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer.
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.
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, I got married about two and a half years ago, and that's been a big change in my life.
Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.
Right now I really enjoy writing songs.
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.
My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.
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