I learned from my teachers but became through my music

I wanted to get clean. I knew that my highest potential, the place that I was most spiritual, the place that I was the most rich in terms of my life, and my livelihood, and my art and my creativity, was when I was sober.

We become so numb to what we're saying.

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen

I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential.