"I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs."

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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

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"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

People

"I don't play the tuba."

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"I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts."

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"A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad."

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"That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be."

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"A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus."

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"God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me."

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"When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer."

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"My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner."

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