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.

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.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.

I see a long lost home in his eyes. He sees a nice hotel in mine.