Forgiving the people that hurt us most allows us to heal from the wounds they left.

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

I grew up with a great sense of insecurity in figuring out what I was and where I belonged.

The real test of our character is when the bottom falls out.

Men, specifically in the West, have no rights of passage, no way to know when they become a man. Everywhere else in the world you gotta kill a lion or stab a shark, or go on some journey, and you come back and you're a man. But here in the West, we're really kind of clueless as to what makes us a man.

I like to use my voice as an instrument and just play along with the music. That's really how I tend to my voice. The content usually comes after or during that process of just trying to be an instrument.