I've had a good-size fan base for a while.

My music-making process is pretty fun and easy.

I still feel like an outcast on the inside, but it doesn't bother me anymore at all.

If you come to my shows, there's all kinds of different races, all kinds of different people.

I got bullied so much growing up for being a different color in a majority white school.

A lot of people that only like country music, they're not fans of mine.

I was on the road with my buddy Alex - he's my guitar player - and we watched the movie 'Click' by Adam Sandler. And I don't know why, but me and him just got in our feelings. And then we ended up calling our girls, and we were like, 'We're so sorry. We wish you were here!'

I just want people to know that they can make it through hard times like I did.

When I was younger, my mom and I lived in a car because we didn't have anywhere to go.

After graduating from high school, even though I was working, I didn't have enough money to pay rent, so I stayed with my Nana.

On my posts, I would tell people, 'If you like this, give it a share.' If you go online and look at my videos, you might see where I have 80,000 likes, but 525,000 shares. That's where you gain more people as followers coming in. It took me a second to learn it all, but now that I have, it's been a blessing and a curse.

I realized everything my mom had done for me: Anything we didn't have, she made sure we had.

Matt McGinn and Taylor Phillips played a big part in getting me where I am.

Music has been a huge part of my life, and I feel like it's a part of everyone's.

I get hurt when people talk bad about me because I'm not that person that will hurt anybody.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

I was kind of nervous to put 'Learning' out: it's a lot different. That's who I am. I'm going to push the boundaries.

I kept my circle small. I had my friends that I knew wouldn't do anything to hurt me, and I would also stand up for them, and those are still my friends today.

I used to isolate myself and be in my room by myself all the time.

That's something that I never thought I would have in a million years. We've done Gold before with 'Used To Love You Sober,' which I thought was awesome, but you don't realize once you get to Platinum, and you see the number difference between 500,000 and a million.

Nobody deserves to be bullied.

A die-hard country fan, they're not going to a Drake concert.

In the first game I ever played in high school, I had a pick-six for a touchdown. That was a fun memory.

It's been neat to find out different writing strategies. I've been in the room with so many different writers. Sometimes, you write with tracks, and other times, with acoustic guitars. That's been really a cool thing, because it brings out different lyrics with you.