Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.

When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

I am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person.