I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.

I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.

Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.

People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.