I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

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

I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn't have cash on him.