The 5 Questions We Ask Everyone: Gavin DeGraw

By CC Staff

Gavin DeGraw. A man with a guitar. A hot man with a guitar. A hot man with a guitar and a whole lot of talent. A hot man with a guitar and a whole lot of talent that just released a new album (that we already love as much or more than his megahit, Chariot) that agreed to sit down and answer a few of our questions.

He also happens to be funny, charismatic and the kind of guy you’d totally want to hang out with in a room at a house party. Not like that, ladies. Ok, maybe like that, but also in the platonic “he’s a fun guy to drink beers with” sorta way.

See for yourself:

5 Questions we Ask Everyone:

1. What is the most trouble you’ve ever gotten into?
Getting probation for having a pocket knife [while] walking down the street in NYC.

2. What are the five things you can’t live without?
Pocketknife, cell phone, water, food and…pocketknife.

3. What’s your motto or the advice you live by?
Make it count.

4. What is you favorite song to belt out at the bar/in the car/for karaoke?
Anything Neil Diamond

5. Ten years from now you will be….
10 years older…and in school deciding on a new major…and lying about my age!

5 Questions just for Gavin:

1. If you had to choose one artist to cover one of your songs, who would it be and why?
Willie Nelson. I would be so flattered that he would do it in the first place, as well as interested in how he would interpret it.

2. What was the inspiration behind your new album, Free? Free from what?
[It is going] back to my roots without all of the pressure and technology of the studio and being able to do what I love the way I want to do it.

3. How do you unwind after a show?
It’s really hard to unwind after a show because the energy that my fans give off is insane.  I usually shower right after the show, and then come back into the venue and try and meet as many of the people who were at the show as I can.

4. Who is the girl you croon of in “In Love With a Girl”?
No one in particular, and anyway I’m not giving her credit because it’s over now.

5. The contestants on American Idol are always singing your song “I Don’t Want to Be” on the show; why do you think that is? Do you like the way they cover it?
I am flattered that they cover my song(s) on that show.  Every time they sing on that show may be their last, so if they think my songs are good enough to keep them around, that’s a pretty good feeling.

Bonus: You seem to be have quite a presence on Twitter. Who are your favorite people to follow on Twitter? It’s us, isn’t it?
Totally you guys. What’s Twitter?