Music has been more, you know, the only thing I've ever known.

I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic.

The fact that my dad was never around gave me a lot of determination. It really set this fire full of fuel, so to speak. It didn't matter what anybody was telling me, how many times I got rejected, because it was never as bad as being rejected by your own father.

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

I just never doubted myself. I always knew I was going to do something.

I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music.

The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.