Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.

The studio work that I do allows me to connect with people around the world. You can't perform live for everyone, so having the ability to share my creative vision with others is very important to me as well.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.

I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

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