I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.

The one thing that I realize - well, not the one thing, but it was a big thing - having in my head that I need to get healthier. It's been a very gradual process for me.

I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.

Everything happens when it's supposed to.

Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.

It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.

There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.