You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That`s what I felt. I`ve made a lot of mistakes I`m not proud of.
When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.
There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.
The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn`t really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn`t want to be a hypocrite, because my life w...