The only person who can limit your possibilities is you.

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

I just think that I associated music with something that was healing and transformative as a kid.

Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.

The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.

Now we also need people who just love to listen to the music. And we need people that want to work to facilitate it. That want to do work, have somebody like Bret Primack, the jazz video guy.

Phil [Wood] was very passionate. Very committed. He felt very blessed that the people that cared about him and took him aside... if he was out of line or drinking too much, being too surly.