I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.

I'd rather have a lot of little donations than a couple big ones. That shows that people care and are giving what they can.

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

I'm not really a very social person. It exhausts me when I'm out.

I don't think that I have much power at all, and I don't think that I'm trying to do anything outside of making my fans happy with the music that I write and record and, of course, I want to branch out and I want to have more fans, so I try to get interviews and I try to talk to different outlets and I try to get my music everywhere it can be.

What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!

When people have expectations, you're going to make a lot of them upset - when in fact I'm not trying to represent anybody but myself.