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

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.

I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else. And what was good about it was that I was writing for somebody I knew. I knew what my mother thinks and how she feels. So it was finding that creative spirit to write about my mother.

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.

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.