I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.

You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something.

If you enjoy learning, if you enjoy the curiosity of music and what can be done with it, and stop looking at it as something you have to do because someone says this is what you have to do to be a professional, you know, learn it because you're curious about it and then I think you'll have a much better creative sense and enable this inner voice to come out. These things are not taught and are not encouraged.

Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.

There's many possibilities for anything.

You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.

When I was in eighth grade said sit in at a graduation party and I played 'Boys' by The Beatles and fifty people were standing around with their mouths open. And you kind of get the hint, well maybe I should do this because I'm not very good at sports, I'm not that popular, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very good looking, but when I played the drums, everybody liked it.