You can't hold a grudge against anybody; you gotta let it go.
We lived in eight or nine different houses and six or seven different apartments growing up.
I get hurt when people talk bad about me because I'm not that person that will hurt anybody.
My fans are so loyal to me, and it's an amazing feeling to have everyone support me.
I realized everything my mom had done for me: Anything we didn't have, she made sure we had.
I feel like everybody that saw my videos was like, 'Oh this dude's about to rap.' They just played my videos, and I feel like I shocked a lot of people.
I just feel like I have a chance to be a role model now.
Growing up, I never had a steady home.
I started going on YouTube and studying everybody who was super popular, from Taylor Swift to Beyonce to Michael Jackson to Chris Brown, just everybody... That's what helped me find my voice and helped me find how I write songs, just doing covers.
It feels awesome to be a Guinness World Records title holder and to be the first artist to achieve this with Billboard. I remember being in elementary and middle school and looking at the books for all of the records, and I can't believe my name gets to be in there now.
I definitely see the genre opening up a lot more. I don't know if black people don't want to get into country music or what, but I feel like we're breaking down barriers.
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.
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 usually think about titles. I'll hear somebody say something and write it down in my notes, and whenever we go into a room, somebody will start naming off titles, and whoever has the best title, that's what we start writing.
Nobody deserves to be bullied.
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.
I used to isolate myself and be in my room by myself all the time.
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.
Music has been a huge part of my life, and I feel like it's a part of everyone's.
Matt McGinn and Taylor Phillips played a big part in getting me where I am.
