“The music becomes more pure and soulful when it’s true, and it has to be true.”

You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life’s lessons are learned in pain.

To appreciate the sun, you gotta know what rain is.

Take a chance, because you never know how perfect something can turn out.

I walk along this long harbor of life and sit on the piers, reflect on my pain and sh*t on my fears.

For a few minutes you made me feel as if I actually meant something to someone.

We got dreams and we got the right to chase ’em.

Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

I’m really going out of my way to do it the right way. I’m taking very few cheats – very few cheat codes that I’m using.

No such thing as a life that’s better than yours, no such thing – no such thing.

Hard to move on when you always regret one.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

Sometimes our dreams come true, sometimes our fears do too.

I know that vengeance is the Lord’s and it’s not for me.

Either you play the game or you let the game play you.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

It’s not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

My music is spiritual if you listen to it, it’s all about emotion.

Real talent doesn’t always win championships, like real music doesn’t always win Grammys.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos.That’s just what I love. If I wasn’t getting paid I’d still do it.

I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it’s therapeutic to me. It’s a release. It’s how I vent emotionally.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.