I don't know that there was a moment, like one specific moment where I was like "Ugh. Now what do I do?" I was just always like, "I'm just in here and if I have to fight with myself or ask for help or just be lost for a little while, but I'm just going to keep looking." Because music was all I had.

[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.

Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

Life and success are about what you choose to believe.

I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.

Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.