For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles

I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

If you believe in yourself, it doesn't matter what others might be telling you is impossible. It's all up to you!

I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very much lacking nowadays. Someone said to me that chivalry is dead, and I hated to have to agree, but it's true.

My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.