Of course awards matter.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Why see the world / when you got the beach?

When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics