Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.

When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching, "Okay, you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper."

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.