I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I'd just written the song that got me my record deal. If I hadn't gotten kicked out of school I wouldn't be where I am now. Three months after that, I got my record deal and the rest is history.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.