The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.

People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.

I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn’t a good idea.

I'm a recording artist who's traveled around the world so I have different opportunities than other people and people may decide how I should use my opportunities because my opportunities are public whereas I can't decide how people should use their opportunities because their opportunities are private. That's what we're dealing with - people feeling like they should be able to control celebrities.

Art is love and it covers. It sheilds.

It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.