Life started getting good when I started making money.

I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them.

Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.

Hearing the record and seeing the response is affirming that it was the right time and right choice.

we live; we feel; we hurt. the world makes no exceptions.

Years later, you can hear a song, and it brings you back right to that moment, what was happening at that time, whether it was a relationship or a difficult time, or maybe a great time in your life, and you had that album you were listening to. Twenty years later, you can put on that song you fell in love to or your heart was broken to, and you hear that song and it brings you right back there. I think music is the most powerful tool we have.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.