I get my strength from my faith in God. My goal is to be a Christian who does mainstream music. I want my music to reach out to the multitudes. I want to bring entertainment, but I want to bring encouragement and hope at the same time.

When there’s hope on the horizon, you’re ready to live again. I’m still healing, but I feel like this process is bringing healing to my life.

People coming in from the outside view probably think it’s too much, but it’s only been seven months since she’s passed. This is who I am. It’s not that I throw it in people’s faces, but I get asked about it all the time. … It weighs on my mind a lot, though, because, honestly, this is a sob story I don’t want. I don’t want this story. But it is shaping my life, and it’s causing hope for a lot of people and it’s causing hope for my life. I didn’t want to live anymore when she passed. But now, I have my mission set in stone of … who I am. There’s a fun side to me that’s gonna come out. I apologize to everybody if they feel like it’s shoved down their face, but it’s so fresh in my mind.

-On his back story about his wife Sophia’s passing