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After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.

Songwriting is my gift from God.

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.