I've LIVED so much life as a young man. New Orleans, we got TERMS, and one's like, 'He jumped off the porch EARLY.' That's kind of what happened to me. I had to grow up REALLY quick.

For me Louisiana was mostly family when I was there. We hardly LEFT; there was no NEED to... We hardly left the front porch. You would just sit, and folks would COME by, and it was REALLY old SCHOOL in that way.

In SUMMER, I LIKE to sit and COMPOSE on the porch, where I can see PEOPLE come and go.

I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and SIT on the front porch and kind of blend this weird spoken word and these little melodies over simple chords; that REALLY STARTED my WHOLE journey as a MUSICIAN.