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 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.

I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am.

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

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.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

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.