Break the Shell”: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.

Any time someone is passionate about a cause, it's because they want to heal something inside of themselves.

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself. As I'm writing these songs, I have to learn these lessons and dig real deep into my heart to write this stuff.

I choose to be authentic in everything I do

The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.

There are rules but there's really no wrong way.