Be Yourself

My biggest challenge used to be, I was so good at having my heart open, and I lived my life with my heart on my sleeve in a culture where young boys and men don't do that. To be a young boy and a man with enormous access to flow, creativity, and its feminine side was a big challenge for me. The reason why I'm also really excited about this tour idea is that the thing that made me such an object of being bullied and made fun of as a child, where I was always wearing my art on my sleeve, for some crazy reason I could never be any other way. Now I'm in the latter part of my life, and it turns out that as much as people love my music, it's my transparency that people are so excited about. It gives people permission to just be themselves, because that's all it is about, being yourself. I dare to make mistakes like I make and to reveal them as the greatest gifts to my humanity, to look at my mistakes as evidence of my humanity and my perfect imperfection. After a lifetime of having phenomenal inner critic problems and being at the mercy of a very cruel voice that said I would never be enough in its eyes, I'm really happy to say that I'm at peace with self love, self acceptance in a way that even helps me be more powerful as an impact on people's lives.