You Want To Be Commercially Successful And

I Love That I'm Able To Take People Away Just For A Little While. Even If They Come To My Show And It's An Escape From Taxes Or Heartbreak Or A Shitty Workplace Experience - All Those Human Beings I Get To Sing For Laugh And Emote With Give Me More Happiness Than I Could Ever Give Them.

A Lot Of Subjects Blend Into The Same Thing: Intolerance. When You're A Little Kid, You Don't Know That It's Going To Get Better. Your Life Experience Hasn't Told You That. I Want To Protect Those People. I Want To Send Out A Message And At Least Try To Get That Across.

I Don't Want To Be The Flavor, The Passing Thing That The Girls Scream At. I Think That It's More Important For Me, Honestly, That The Guy Who Gets Dragged To The Show, You Know, Looks At His Wife And Says, Thank You, That Was Great And Tells His Buddies.

On Social Media And [in Person] I Hear Stories Of How A Song Like "home" Helps. Whether It's A Guy Overseas Coping With Missing His Family Or Something Deeper And Terribly Dramatic. Somebody Once Told Me That ["home"] Is The Song They Listen To When They Go To The Cemetery To Visit Their Child That Passed Away. It Gives Them Hope. At The End Of The Day, That's All What I Want To Offer People.

I Was So Lucky. I Had A Dad And A Mom That Loved Me And My Sisters So Much. My Uncle Mike And Uncle Frank Were Married. They Must Be Together For Fortysomething Years Now. Long Story Short, There Was Never Any Stigma Attached To That. At The Youngest Age, I Remember My Dad Saying, "sometimes Men Love Men And Women Love Women. It's Nature.