If I remain true to what's in my heart, that's all the success I need.

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks.

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.