Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

I started performing at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

For me now, what I've come to is, we don't know anything.

I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.