Honestly if men are given a choice, we'll choose everything.

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

We see differences in people and seem to be afraid of people. The black or white or gay or straight - I don't necessarily look for differences but for similarities. We need to be looking out for each other.

Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.