We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without paying for it. But I think it's important to realize the blessing of the Internet, which is that everybody has a voice and you can break through, even without a record company.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.