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.
“It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.”
“The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.”