In the old days it was common for my voice to go out. I couldn't sing more than two days in a row on the road, and often times my voice would go out by the end of the first show. I couldn't even talk. I wasn’t singing. I was yelling and screaming trying to be heard...

I try to incorporate elements of who I am as a musician in each song I write. Sometimes it’s obvious, sometimes not.

My Hammond organ needs a lot of upkeep, just like an old car. Trevor Brooks is my Organ Tech. Three or four times a year we're working on it to it to make sure it's in tip top shape and ready for the road. Without Trevor, I can't really do it.

When you share the stage with somebody, there is a respect that goes across the stage. You just can't afford to let that person down. It's like lying to your mom. If you let them down, it's going to come back to haunt you. You just can't do it. Now the whole ship...

I'm a musician. I write music. I play songs. That's what I do. I'm in the music business and that's what I have to do first. I fell in love with music as a kid, listening to songs, sitting at the piano playing songs, going over to friends' houses, “Hey, I learned this...

I remember as a kid seeing a fundraiser on public television where Billy Preston played "Summertime". The sounds that he got out of that organ… He made it scream. He made it wail. He made it cry. He had all these different sounds and tricks. For me, that was it. That...

George Porter says, by learning a new song, you acquire new tools to put in your tool belt. Then at the next gig you learn something else and add that to your tool belt. So when you are fifteen, twenty years down the road, you have a full tool belt to work with. The...

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Musically, what's challenging to me right now is to just stay fresh by adding something new to my vocabulary. It can be very small and very simple. It doesn't have to be anything complex or a reinvention of the wheel. Just something that keeps me engaged and excited...