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 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.

When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.

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