I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

No, there aren’t any musicians in my family; I’m the only one who sings.

As a child, I saw Elvis Presley. So that was something, I mean he was this person with a guitar and that was the image I wanted to be. I wanted to be a musician so I got my first guitar when I was thirteen years old, and I felt, oh man, now that I have the guitar, I got the music. But it started from that....