“I think for us to survive and thrive as a country, we need to not look inward, but outward,” he explains to, was released on July 21, makes music with a purpose. But this isn’t purpose in the sense of making songs about important causes — which he does — but purpose in the sense of using the money he makes from recording his music to help raise funds and awareness for causes that actively make lives better.
Allen’s main philosophy centers around the basic idea of “How can I make the world a better place?” Music is what animates him, but helping people who ran into bad luck or made a mistake is what illustrates that animation. That passion started when he visited a maximum security prison in Colorado during his days as a venture capitalist.
“I get more joy out of making people happy than pretty much anything else I do, and selfishly, improving peoples’ lives makes me feel better,” he says. “It makes me have hope for the future and the country. If I can do it, maybe somebody else can do it.”