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 do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.

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.

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

I grew up in a time where anything was possible.

I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.