Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, make drama, make up characters, make pictures in the sand, they'll make up songs that no one's ever heard before. All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.