My mom's a concert pianist so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight I started writing my own songs and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically which is a big influence on me I think.
It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher – it's like she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music and develop my ear and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.
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We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine most heavily would be Southern rock – the Allman Brothers Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side – her mom is Linda Davis a country singer. Dave he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.