My Grandfather Was A Pentecostal Preacher.

Ever Since I Was A Kid, I've Always Been A Real Deep Thinker And Stuff.

A Lot Of People Think Christianity Is About Always Being Perfect. It's Actually The Opposite Of That. It's Realizing That We're All Humans, And That's Why God Sent His Son To This Earth - To Save People.

I've Had A Pretty Crazy Life. It's Colorful ... Reliving Some Of Those Closets That I Had Shut, Locked And Thrown Away The Key Intentionally Because It Was Painful To Revisit A Lot Of Those Places - Especially The Loss Of My Buddy Robbie Tooley, The Divorce Of My Parents, Some Of The Things I Went Through As A Kid, A Lot Of That Stuff Was Locked Up For A Reason - It Was Painful. But At The Same Time, There Was Some Therapy In Revisiting Some Of Those Spots.

The People At The Record Company Had Asked Me If I Could Write A Song About My Life, My Relationship With God, And Where I'm From. Well, I Can't Write A Song On Purpose, My Songs Come In A Moment Of Inspiration Or Desperation.

You Make That Climb, Take It Step By Step And Hopefully The View Is Great. I Try To Be A Friend For Miley. I Know That's Not Everyone's Parenting Style. But I Try To Be A Friend, A Partner As A Singer, Actor, Songwriter And Let Her Be A Teenage Girl And Do Her Thing.