I Believed In Myself And I Am

I Was In An A Cappella Group In School, So It Particularly Helped Me Keep My Piano Chops Up.

We Have A Serious Problem With Incarceration In This Country. It's Destroying Families, It's Destroying Communities And We're The Most Incarcerated Country In The World, And When You Look Deeper And Look At The Reasons We Got To This Place, We As A Society Made Some Choices Politically And Legislatively, Culturally To Deal With Poverty, Deal With Mental Illness In A Certain Way And That Way Usually Involves Using Incarceration.

For Me, No Matter How Much Money You Want To Make Off Of Singing, No Matter What Kind Of Fame You Want To Make, Achieve, The Most Important Thing To Me Is Making Music That You're Proud Of, Making Music That Comes From You, Comes From An Authentic Place In You.

My Mother, I Want Her To Like My Music, But She's Not Exactly My Target Audience. So I Care More About The Fans In General, Just Making Sure They Enjoy What I Do.

There's So Much Music Out There, And So Many Different Styles That I've Been Influenced By, So Each Album Reflects Some Of That Knowledge Or Influence That I've Had.