Musician Quotes

But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

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.

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.

It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.

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.

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

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 the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like 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.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

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 hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be.

I never practice; I always play.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

I didn't go to parties or anything like that.

I didn't do that many crazy things.

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.

I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

Don't get me wrong, I love my first two albums a lot.

Crunches only go so deep.

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.