A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

This world is so crazy. So many things are based on popularity versus talent. So there's a lot of folks who are not so talented, but they're popular and they have "x" amount of followers on social media.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.