My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

I think Rihanna always looks so fresh and I'm like, "How do you do that? We all know how much pot you smoke!"

I think that a lot of teenagers think they got it all down-pat. Especially when they first move out and they're on their own for the first time. Oh this is easy, this is breezy. Then all of a sudden it hits you in your mid-twenties that maybe you don't know how to do your taxes still. There's all kinds of things and you start calling your parents up again.

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.