I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definitely always up for that.

Everyone has their own path and you cant judge.

Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.

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

I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definitely always up for that.

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.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.