I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

You will never have the answers, but you have to keep pushing yourself and keep reading and keep working on yourself.

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

Ive been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.

I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

I hope that I can make music that helps people in some way or that they can connect with, and that I can just live a life where I'm surrounded by people that I love.

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

Life is short, so I am one of those people - and luckily my girlfriend is too - who wants to live everywhere. I don't know how long I'll be there, but I like it right now.

To live a selfish life is the fastest track to catastrophe

Trying to become something in a world where everyone wants to become something is a thing that needs God's programming.

There is so much want. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl named Cassia.

What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue; and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.