There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.

But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

Everyone has their own path and you cant judge.

I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.