A lot of people can have a lot of different influences, everyone can be compared in some way to someone whether they are from 60 years ago or more recent.
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When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.
Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.
I just have a lot off different influences.
I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.
I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.
You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.
The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.
That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.