These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.

I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap like that. But writing songs and melodies and s**t that's hopefully going to stick around for 30, 40 years is f**king hard...If you have good songs and you're talented, people will eventually come to your shows, people will buy your music.

If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works or not, I can say I tried my best.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.