What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.
I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.
It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.
My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.
It's a pity if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.