People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.

The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.

I like trendy clothes just like everybody else does.

Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.

I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.

I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.

If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday tomorrow, go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!