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

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.

My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’

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

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.