I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of professionalism.

A pretty pivotal moment for me was having a songwriting class with Paul McCartney when I was at LIPA, and then being called in a few days later by the headmaster of the school to tell me that Paul McCartney likes what I'm doing.

Musically, some of the acts that I've really been identifying with are: Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Earth, Wind & Fire, in general music that seems to have a lot of romance to it and a certain glamorous idealism.

I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm awful at it), when I decided to play the 'put a pen somewhere on a map with your eyes closed' game with South Africa. About the 5th try was St. Lucia in South Africa, which coincidentally also happens to be an idyllic sub-tropical seaside resort town. The name seemed to fit with the mood of the music, and so after a while it just stuck.