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I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

I became stereotyped.

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.

I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

In the end, I realized that I just didn't like acting enough to put up with the stereotype and I didn't really think I was good enough to transcend it.

It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.