I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.

Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.