There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.

Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.