My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

I'm a laid-back guy, but my brain is always wrapped up in music.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.

I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything.

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.