I try not to be preachy, I just try to deal with people on their own level, not to try to talk down or up to a person.

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

If it's in your personality to get out and talk to people, then you get to see what it is that city has to offer, through the people. A lot of the times with your own eyes you don't get to see that.

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.

I'm a city boy by nature - that's a big-ass oxymoron - but I do appreciate nature to the fullest because they say if you wanna see God just look around. We can't make this, it's all creation, so I appreciate that.