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.

People get so caught up in needing to know and having to prove themselves to be right, and I'm blown away by this.

I'm vulnerable reading people's comments on Facebook.

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

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.

I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.