There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

North Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.