If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.