It was great growing up a nomad. To this day I still love hiking and back packing.

I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother and I moved around a lot. We basically moved every couple of years, and I went to a lot of different schools. But creativity, for us, was always a way of life. It was never a job. Being an artist was a passion and a way of life.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

No one has to give you permission to make music or make art.

Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.