Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.

The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.

I don't kid myself in thinking that I'm on the front lines. I know the people who are on the front lines. I mean there are people in some freakin' significant places making on-the-ground social front line change. I've marched. I've put feet on the ground for what I believe and what I'm against with no compromise. And there are people who are risking a whole hell of a lot more than me to make change, that's for damn sure.

I just want to keep doing what I feel.

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.