Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.

I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

"Be nice to your parents." When they made the decision to have a child, whether it was planned or not, they were changing their entire lives to do the best they could for this new human being. A lot of young people, we don't understand that.

It's our God forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved.

My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he's getting calls from girls to see if I'm home!