The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

A lot of people believe a lot of things. People also believe in a lot of ideas or hold tight to a lot of ideologies and beliefs.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

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.

Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.

I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.