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.

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.

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

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

I don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach.

I'm an actor and I am looking for roles where I can continue to evolve, and things that are challenging. I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.