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It can be an educational thing to play your songs to people because you see where you've gone right and where you've gone wrong.

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.

I think music has always been what I always wanted to do, but I didn't know how or when I was going to get discovered.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.