Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.

I don't play the tuba.

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.

I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.