I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song.

I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've always been one who has always done things the way I thought they should be done and not, and not having to answer to anybody for it and I've always taken my own chances and I've always followed by instincts according, mother would follow, follow wit, instincts, wisdom, whatever, always followed that.

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.

I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed to contribute to not only to my, my, my fans that I had begun to gather but to myself most of all, most importantly for me.

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to certain things.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.