I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

All the best times in music were rebellious. I mean, even like Elvis, people didn't want their daughters paying attention to him. He was considered too sexual!

When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

I've always had this tremendous and very deep feeling of knowing my purpose, you know? It never dawned on me, it always very much known.

The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.