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'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

I think I've tried to stay true to my music since the beginning. It's kind of hard because of the access and technology but I just do what I do.

You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.