You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I just really care about what people see. I want them to know that I'm working hard for this. The artists that I look up to like, you know, Michael, Prince, James Brown. You watch them and you understand that they're paying attention to the details of their art. And they care so much about what they're wearing, about how they're moving, about how they're making the audience feel. They're not phoning it in. They're going up there to murder anybody that performs after them or performs before them. That's what I've watched my whole life and admired.