Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Every artist wants some sort of feedback, because you make this music and you hope people love it and you want to hear if they love it and what they love about it, what their favorite song is, what they think the next single should be. I like to hear those things.

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.