I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty much when I was sold on it.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.