I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.

I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.

It’s like flight, you’re flying… When you’re hitting something that’s turning you on, you get goose bumps. It’s a rush. It’s very exciting and that’s what I’m hoping to do to the audience.

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.