There is also something exciting about the risk. Somewhere in me is a sadist that likes pain, I guess.

A lot of people can figure out the social media aspect of it, or the merchandising aspect, or whatever and get enough momentum to start a career. To sustain it, you have to keep writing and you have to keep creating.

I don't how many of us get to go to the next level, and I don't know how many people on my level get to go to the next level after that. I think it is the songs that can take you there.

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

I think one of the reasons that I love the fans that have stuck around, because I really enjoy writing different kinds of songs. I don't know if I write them well or not, but I can write them.

I can't figure out why fans keep coming, maybe it's because they dig the songs.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.