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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence. ”
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career. ”
I had an expectation going into the NFL, and then the experience that I had exceeded what I expected to see from people that played at that level. And so, it was a learning experience not only from a mental standpoint and a physical standpoint, but just a routine standpoint. ”
The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself. ”
As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully. ”
Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind. ”
The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now. ”
For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. ”
I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on. ”
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience. ”