You can turn off the sun, but I`m still gonna shine.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there`s no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn`t on the radio or TV.

Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I`m meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they`re made, so I`m in no hurry.

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.

Surrender to life itself and you`ll just be rewarded with so many things. And I`ve been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

In the words of Michael Jackson: I`m a lover, not a fighter.

I encourage the players to simply feel what they feel and relay that on tape. The outcome was brighter than I could have ever imagined.

I`m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that`s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

I`m always thinking about the next record. I`ve got like 20 different themes and then I`ll scratch the themes. It`s a learning process.

I`ve been compared to people since the beginning. When you`re starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I`m 40, I`ll be good at it.

I`ve always been happy. I`ve just been loving doing this. It`s just great. I couldn`t ask for anything more. I`ve great friends and family.

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn`t take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I`m replaying an event through a song.

Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people`s faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that`s my therapy, that`s when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

I`m trying to be more of a gentleman.

I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.

My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.

I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn`t until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn`t have any accompaniment.