My Interview With Travis Mills

"The music has to come first and when you’re 21 and you’re finding success for the first time, it’s easy to get distracted. There’s so many distractions," said Mills. "Whether it be girls, the parties, the whatever. Money. Music always has to come first and for so long, I definitely was experiencing things that I never really felt would come true, so I was trying to live them out to their fullest potential." Yet with Girlfriends, Mills added that "it all starts and ends with the music."

He advised artists to "put those 10,000 hours in" and to "focus on your craft." He said, "All the other stuff is cool and I got to experience all that, I got to be on the road for years at a time and do all the fun rockstar sh*t." Yet, he knows that the industry is fickle and often difficult to steer. "For me, I don’t know many other artists that have been around for 14 years that are still doing it. I’ve toured with so many people who, for one reason or another, aren’t making music anymore, aren’t creating anything. I feel very blessed to have this head on my shoulders to navigate an industry like this one."