I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.

There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.

I always refer back to the days of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Rat Pack. Back when everyone wore a suit because that's what it was to be an entertainer. You were stylish and you were fly, and it was an effortless fly.

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.

I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.

Fear is a healthy part of success.

That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.