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

My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?

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

For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.

The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.

I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.